{"id":218866,"date":"2025-07-27T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/innovative-robotic-slip-prevention-method-could-bring-human-like-dexterity-to-industrial-automation"},"modified":"2025-07-27T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T20:11:00","slug":"innovative-robotic-slip-prevention-method-could-bring-human-like-dexterity-to-industrial-automation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/innovative-robotic-slip-prevention-method-could-bring-human-like-dexterity-to-industrial-automation","title":{"rendered":"Innovative robotic slip-prevention method could bring human-like dexterity to industrial automation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/innovative-robotic-slip-prevention-method-could-bring-human-like-dexterity-to-industrial-automation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new slip-prevention method has been shown to improve how robots grip and handle fragile, slippery or asymmetric objects, according to a University of Surrey\u2013led study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42256-025-01062-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Machine Intelligence<\/i>. The innovation could pave the way for safer, more reliable automation across industries ranging from manufacturing to health care.<\/p>\n<p>In the study, researchers from Surrey\u2019s School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering demonstrated how their approach allows robots to predict when an object might slip\u2014and adapt their movements in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/real-time\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">real-time<\/a> to prevent it.<\/p>\n<p>Similar to the way humans naturally adjust their motions, this bio-inspired method outperforms traditional grip-force strategies by allowing robots to move more intelligently and maintain a secure hold without simply squeezing harder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new slip-prevention method has been shown to improve how robots grip and handle fragile, slippery or asymmetric objects, according to a University of Surrey\u2013led study published in Nature Machine Intelligence. The innovation could pave the way for safer, more reliable automation across industries ranging from manufacturing to health care. In the study, researchers from [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}