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 ...

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It can be a friend, a very good friend." Margeson, an artist from Marietta, Georgia, is learning how a health care robot ...

Robots with object-gripping arms aren’t uncommon at CES ... Roborock isn’t promising infinite capabilities for the arm at launch. The five-axis OmniGrip has a built-in camera to help it ...

His 6 axis robot arm is certainly a strong first step on that road. As many people have learned, DIY robot arms are pretty difficult. [Dan]’s arm has the additional complexity of being 3D ...

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far when extended. After a series of trial-and-error experiments, the engineers ...