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UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering students have developed a new robot hand that picks fruit and changes light bulbs using just measuring tape as “fingers.” Called “GRIP-tape,” a ...

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Created by Assoc. Prof. Nick Gravish and colleagues at UC San Diego, the mechanical appendage is known as "GRIP-tape," the word GRIP standing for "Grasping and Rolling In-Plane." It grasps objects ...

They call their robot GRIP-tape, with GRIP serving as an acronym for Grasping and Rolling In-Plane. Building the ideal robotic gripper is still a work in progress. Existing grippers that can ...

The team published their process and design in the journal Science Advances. They call their robot GRIP-tape, with GRIP serving as an acronym for Grasping and Rolling In-Plane. Building the ideal ...