Founded in 2013, Soft Robotics’ grippers are already being used by manufacturers and retailers to pick and pack everything from chocolates to injection-molded parts to uncooked pizza dough.

The researchers, from Tampere University of Technology, designed the gripper along the lines of the Venus flytrap, which waits patiently for something tasty to trigger its grip.

A lizard-inspired robot gripper may solve our space-junk problems The technology is based on gecko feet, which can adhere to vertical surfaces.

On Robot’s two-finger RG2 grippers — available in both single and dual versions — mount easily on the arms of collaborative robots (cobots) without any external wires; for robots that have infinite ...

Their results are published in Nature Machine Intelligence. Typically, robots designed to manipulate objects are built with a gripper and a wrist with three degrees of freedom.