suction
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Some engineers say the future isn’t in replicating the human shape but in improving on it, with four hands instead of two, or suction grippers instead of fingers.
Cutter suction dredgers harvest material for further expansion.
The most promising model is a robot with 12 arms, six on either side, each bearing a camera and suction cups.
They will silently show you how it’s done with an impossibly balletic ollie, their board magically suctioned to their soles as they slide down the whole length of the thing.
Robot arms tend to be equipped with two- or three-pronged pincers or with suction cups.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
