Tools that offer early and accurate insight into plant health—and allow individual plant interventions—are key to increasing crop yields as environmental pressures increasingly impact horticulture and ...

Energy remains a significant factor in industrial production processes. High levels of energy consumption make production more expensive and exacerbate the climate crisis. A new type of robot ...

Tools that offer early and accurate insight into plant health – and allow individual plant interventions – are key to increasing crop yields as environmental pressures increasingly impact horticulture ...

There is a growing interest in leveraging tactile sensing and data-driven models to enable robust robotic grasping; in this context, detecting object slip is a fundamental skill. However, the large ...

A flexible foam sensor built from silver selenide detects temperature and pressure simultaneously, enabling a robotic gripper to identify nine different materials with 96% accuracy. (Nanowerk ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children -- and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would extend before bending. But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Cornell University researchers used stretchable fiber-optic sensors to create a soft robot gripper that can predict the ripeness of strawberries by touch, then gently twist them off ...

WVU researcher Anand Mishra helped develop a soft, squishy robotic hand that gently inspects and harvests delicate fruits ...

ABB Robotics and PSYONIC explore using real human prosthetic touch data to train industrial robots for delicate gripping ...

Designing robotic grippers that integrate rich sensing with low degrees of freedom while maintaining high dexterity remains a critical challenge in robotics. Although high-resolution tactile sensing, ...