The Unions should have created Automation Research Divisions two centuries ago. Then labor could benefit from the introduction of this kind of technology.
I had a vague notion of this idea(pliable tool that conforms to the task- I got tired of looking for ratchet heads) fifteen years ago but lacked the requisite scientific and engineering knowledge to make it manifest.
More like something soft that becomes very rigid when the air is evacuated. Each little particle of coffee becomes a gripping finger. Suction against the target object doesn't seem to come into play.
Sleeping, in your cardboard box cause we're all gonna be replaced by robots. The robots are only messing with you cause they decided to go slumming that night.