Johns Hopkins University's Louis Whitcomb, a professor of mechanical engineering, threw down a challenge to sixth-graders at Baltimore's Barclay Elementary/Middle School: design a claw that could ...

The Dana Hills robotics competition team is in the home stretch, with its robot nearing completion. The team also received a $1,000 contribution from national tech firm GoEngineer, which has offices ...

[Alexey] wrote in to share a mechanical claw (Google Translation) he has been hard at work on for quite some time. While a lot of people will turn to some sort of 3D plastic printer such as the ...

Some of them are big, and some are small, and certainly some are rigged, which is what I’d always thought about the one that challenges you to operate by means of a lever a mechanical claw that ...

Grabbing objects in space has always been a challenge and has generally relied on mechanical claws to do the gripping. The problem is that these claws are limited in what they can grapple. That’s why ...

MOUNT VERNON — Using two tiny mechanical claws, community members tested out Skagit Regional Health’s new robotic surgery system Monday by unwrapping Starburst candies and moving around mini-rubber ...

SHALER, Pa. — High schoolers from all over came together to build their own lunar lander in Shaler on Friday. Students used everything from hooks to remote controls, mechanical claws and a bit of ...