How do you get a robot to inspect a tank with high vertical walls? If the walls are made of certain kinds of metal, you just stick a magnet on it. But many large tanks utilized in the food & beverage ...

According to Pennsylvania State University's Asst. Prof. Long He, the mushroom-farming industry is currently experiencing a labor shortage. His team has thus set about addressing that problem, by ...

We've explored more of outer space than our own ocean floor, and there are good reasons for that. Space is empty, so there's nothing to get in the way. In the ocean, water is everywhere, and explorers ...

A new robotic suction cup which can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed by scientists. A new robotic suction cup which can grasp rough, curved and heavy stone, has been developed ...

Snails are great at climbing vertical surfaces, even though they have just a single wet suction-cup foot. A new robot climbs walls by mimicking that simple yet effective mechanism, although thankfully ...

Imagine for a moment that you have suction cups for fingertips—unless you’re currently on hallucinogens, in which case you should not imagine that. Each sucker is a different size and flexibility, ...