Beyond Soft Hands: Efficient Grasping With Non-Anthropomorphic Soft Grippers [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021 Grasping and manipulation are challenging tasks that are nonetheless critical for many robotic systems and applications. A century ago, robots were conceived as humanoid automata.
Yufei Hao, Yon Visell
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Advances in biomimetic stimuli responsive soft grippers [PDF]
Nano Convergence, 2019 A variety of biomimetic stimuli-responsive soft grippers that can be utilized as intelligent actuators, sensors, or biomedical tools have been developed.
ChangKyu Yoon
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Grasping Performance Analysis and Comparison of Multi-Chamber Ring-Shaped Soft Grippers [PDF]
Biomimetics, 2023 Biologically inspired pneumatic ring-shaped soft grippers have been extensively studied in the field of soft robotics. However, the effect of the number of air chambers on the grasping performance (grasping range and load capacity) of ring-shaped soft ...
Dan Wang, Xiaojun Wu
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Bio‐Inspired Soft Grippers Based on Impactive Gripping [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 Grasping and manipulation are fundamental ways for many creatures to interact with their environments. Different morphologies and grasping methods of “grippers” are highly evolved to adapt to harsh survival conditions.
Liang Zhou +5 more
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Customization Methodology for Conformable Grasping Posture of Soft Grippers by Stiffness Patterning [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020 Soft grippers with soft and flexible materials have been widely researched to improve the functionality of grasping. Although grippers that can grasp various objects with different shapes are important, a large number of industrial applications require a
Jun-Young Lee +3 more
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Design and Experiment Investigation on Soft Grippers with Modular Variable Stiffness Structure [PDF]
Micromachines, 2023 Soft grippers have good adaptability and flexibility for grasping irregular or fragile objects, and to further enhance their stiffness, soft grippers with variable stiffness have been developed.
Pengbing Zhao +4 more
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Active Soft End Effectors for Efficient Grasping and Safe Handling [PDF]
IEEE Access, 2018 The end effector is a major part of a robot system and it defines the task the robot can perform. However, typically, a gripper is suited to grasping only a single or relatively small number of different objects. Dexterous grippers offer greater grasping
Alaa Al-Ibadi +2 more
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Soft Grippers for Automatic Crop Harvesting: A Review [PDF]
Sensors, 2021 Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally used in other productive sectors.
Eduardo Navas +4 more
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A Bioinspired Stress‐Response Strategy for High‐Speed Soft Grippers [PDF]
Advanced Science, 2021 The stress‐response strategy is one of the nature's greatest developments, enabling animals and plants to respond quickly to environmental stimuli. One example is the stress‐response strategy of the Venus flytrap, which enables such a delicate plant to ...
Yangqiao Lin +10 more
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Soft manipulators and grippers: A review [PDF]
Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2016 Soft robotics is a growing area of research which utilizes the compliance and adaptability of soft structures to develop highly adaptive robotics for soft interactions.
Culha, U +5 more
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