Ant-inspired ‘hairy gripper’ boost for robotic picking in Ocado and Amazon backed research

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In tests with 30 different household objects, the addition of ‘hairs’ increased the prototype gripper’s grasp success rate from 64% to 90%

Scientists have developed a ‘hairy robotic gripper’ inspired by ant jaws in a research project backed by Ocado and Amazon

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