Inspired by a childhood game of unspooling measuring tape, engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed ...

It's a game a lot of us played as children—and maybe even later in life: unspooling measuring tape to see how far it would ...

[davidatfsg]’s recent entry in the Hackaday Prize, Delta Robot, shows how complex robotics ... Mega to pick coloured objects off a moving conveyor belt and drop them in their respective bins.

[davidatfsg]’s recent entry in the Hackaday Prize, Delta Robot, shows how complex robotics ... Mega to pick coloured objects off a moving conveyor belt and drop them in their respective bins.

That’s because the tape is both robust and flexible; can be stored in a small container when retracted; and can reach far when extended. After a series of trial-and-error experiments, the engineers ...

But to engineer, this game was an inspiration, suggesting that measuring tape could become a great material for a robotic gripper ... objects or act as a conveyor belt. The gripper can hold ...