For workers whose jobs involve hours of lifting and repetitive motion, even small innovations can make a big difference in ...

Called the Pneumatically Actuated Soft Elbow Exoskeleton (PASE), the device uses a silicone “pneumatic actuator,” or soft air ...

The soft, pneumatic exoskeleton PASE can reduce the effort required for arm work. The perceived workload also decreases.

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

Most artificial arms are based on a simple principle: mechanical linkage carries muscle power to the artificial limb, from either the shoulder or the stump muscles. Convinced that mechanically ...

Soft, air-powered exoskeleton eases muscle fatigue, reduces injuries and boosts workplace safety. (UTA)For workers whose jobs ...

In context: Engineers often model robots after humans. Even the robotic arms in a car manufacturing plant bear a passing resemblance to their human counterpart. The main difference usually comes down ...

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

Soft robots still tend to rely on hard electronics to function, but a new invention might reduce that need for unyielding chips. UC Riverside researchers have developed pneumatic computer memory that ...