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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 extend before bending. But to engineers at the University of California San ...

Engineers at the University of California San Diego, inspired by the unspooling of measuring tape, are suggesting that measuring tape-like material could be used in the making of a robotic gripper.