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MIT & Stanford’s vine-inspired gripper redefines soft robotics lifting

In nature, there are vines that have the strength to pull down fences and tree branches through their unrelenting hold. Today, engineers from the MIT and Stanford organizations have been able to ...
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Vine-inspired soft robot achieves gentle closed-loop lifting

It is not every day that a robot takes its cues from the quiet persistence of a climbing vine; still, that’s exactly where engineers at MIT and Stanford found inspiration for a breakthrough in soft ...