When a spider crawled into the corner of a research lab at Rice University in Houston, Texas and curled up to die, it surely never imagined that it would become the inspiration for researchers’ mad ...

Using a novel design inspired by the Japanese art of paper cutting, researchers have developed gentle yet strong robotic grippers that can fold clothes, grasp a drop of water and ultrathin microfibers ...

Robots could use living invertebrates as grippers to help them pick up awkward objects or grasp things underwater. “We don’t mean it as a replacement for robotics, but as a kind of new direction or ...