Shivam Chopra was a Ph.D. student in the research group of Nick Gravish in the UC San Diego Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, when he developed the robot. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Created by Assoc. Prof. Nick Gravish and colleagues at UC San Diego, the mechanical appendage is known as "GRIP-tape," the word GRIP standing for "Grasping and Rolling In-Plane." It grasps objects ...

The tape measure is such a wonderful structure because of its combined softness and stiffness together,” said Nick Gravish, the paper’s senior author and a faculty member in the UC San Diego ...