Robot Gripper Picks Up Anything

Did you ever have one of those stress balls that helps you relieve mental or emotional strain? Researchers are now using it as a new generation of robotic grippers that grips and holds objects through a combination of suction, friction and geometric interlocking. The advantage of the gripper is it automatically conforms to the shape of whatever it is picking up rather than following a sequence of programming codes to distinguish different types of objects. It can pick up an egg without breaking it, the gripper wraps around the egg which in turn sucks out the air inside the rubber ball making the granular material inside the ball solidify around the egg providing a steady grip on the egg without breaking it.