Public releases show the Office of Naval Research (ONR) funding at least two efforts aimed at improving robot hand dexterity ...

Steel measuring tape is an interesting material, in that it's rigid enough to hold its shape when extended, but flexible enough that it gives way under pressure. Scientists have taken advantage of ...

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 backronym for ...

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 extend before bending. But to engineers at the University of California San ...

How far can you stretch a measuring tape before it buckles? The answer probably depends more on the tape than the user, but it does show how sturdy the coiled spring steel rulers can be. [Gengzhi He ...