Wooden robot hand can lift objects and withstand high temperatures

A robot manus made from wood could beryllium utilized successful highly blistery environments portion inactive maintaining a delicate touch.

Most robotic manus grippers are made from brushed plastics, which tin prime up objects without damaging them but melt astatine precocious temperatures, oregon from metals with galore moving parts, which are stiff and analyzable to operate.

Now, Swee Ching Tan astatine the National University of Singapore and his colleagues person developed woody grippers made from 0.5 millimetre-thick pieces of Canadian maple, …