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When the chips are down: how to ride out the supply storms

E&T

In our cover story , Chris Edwards looks at what happened, why, whether it could have been avoided, and what’s happening now. That’s when I’ll be co-hosting the Innovation Awards along with Dr Shini Somara, the mechanical engineer who is also an author, broadcaster, TEDx speaker and much more. Is it the end of offshoring?

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Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots

Control Engineering

Our sensor really opens up some new possibilities on different manipulation tasks we could do with robots,” says Alan (Jialiang) Zhao, a mechanical engineering graduate student and lead author of a paper on GelSight Svelte. – Edited by Chris Vavra, web content manager, CFE Media and Technology, cvavra@cfemedia.com.

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Robotic hand identifies objects after one grasp

Control Engineering

Our goal with this work was to combine all the things that make our human hands so good into a robotic finger that can do tasks other robotic fingers can’t currently do,” said mechanical engineering graduate student Sandra Liu, co-lead author of a research paper on the robotic finger.