This gripper uses a flexible membrane full of granular material which can form around the item to be picked up.

It's an airtight bag filled with granular material, like sand or PVC pebbles, that can mold itself over the object in question. Once the air is sucked out from the inside, it forms a tight grip ...

In the case of the Versaball, a granular material is packed into a rubber ball on the head of the device. That ball has a bean bag-like consistency when initially pressed onto an object, letting ...

Small granular materials that are packed into a rubber housing like the one at the end of the Versaball have an almost fluid consistency.

The gripper itself is essentially a balloon filled with granular material, in this case coffee grounds. This squishy balloon hand conforms to whatever object it touches.

To understand how to solve this problem for granular materials—and for materials science problems in general—Jaeger’s group is now working with evolutionary algorithms, using computers to model ...

The gripper consisted of a balloon-like ball filled with sand-like granular material. Air is pumped in and out of the object to adjust grip strength.

Through jamming granular materials or particles, which can flow and act like a fluid when loosely packed, the materials interlock to become rock-solid when packed together. This phenomenon is familiar ...

Through jamming granular materials or particles, which can flow and act like a fluid when loosely packed, can also interlock to become rock-solid when packed together.