How a 370-year-old science experiment provides the principles for pick-and-place machines. We have all seen vacuum pads picking up objects in factories or trade shows and probably give little thought ...

Humans have built cranes capable of lifting ridiculously heavy objects and moving them around with ease. We have also designed massive ships to transport large, heavy cargo across thousands of miles ...

Understand How a Crane Works Before you start building, it is important to know how a crane functions. A crane uses a ...

Karl Price, mechanical engineer for Atlas, demonstrated the updated three-fingered gripper. The second-generation device has seven degrees of freedom and seven actuators, with two actuators for each ...