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Biodegradable Thermomagnetically Responsive Soft Untethered Grippers

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2018
Soft-robotic devices such as polymeric microgrippers offer the possibility for pick and place of fragile biological cargo in hard-to-reach conduits with potential applications in drug delivery, minimally invasive surgery, and biomedical engineering. Previously, millimeter-sized self-folding thermomagnetically responsive soft grippers have been designed,
Kunihiko Kobayashi, ChangKyu Yoon, Seung Hyun Oh, Jayson V. Pagaduan, David H. Gracias   +4 more
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Pneumatically Actuated Soft Gripper with Bistable Structures

Soft Robotics, 2022
This study presents the design and test of a novel self-adaptive soft gripper, integrating pneumatic actuators and bistable carbon-fiber reinforced polymer laminates. The morphology was designed using the distinct structural characteristics of bistable structures; and the stable gripping configuration of the gripper was maintained through the ...
Zheng, Zhang, Xiangqi, Ni, Helong, Wu, Min, Sun, Guanjun, Bao, Huaping, Wu, Shaofei, Jiang   +6 more
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Evolving polydisperse soft robotic jamming grippers

Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference Companion, 2022
Granular systems react to changes in external pressure by adapting their density through complex grain contact interactions. Granular packings subjected to small pressures are loose and fluidic, but are jammed into compressed, rigid packings at higher pressures.
Fitzgerald, Seth G., Delaney, Gary W., Howard, David, Maire, Frederic   +3 more
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Closed structure soft robotic gripper

2018 IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2018
This work describes a new kind of soft gripper. Inspiration on nature is usual in Soft Robotics device creation. In this case, the inspiration came from a sea lamprey in order to create a closed structure soft robotic gripper. Usually the grippers have one or more soft actuators that act like fingers.
P. Pedro, C. Ananda, P. B. Rafael, A. R. Carlos, B. C. Alexandre   +4 more
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Shape Memory Alloy Based Soft Gripper

ASME 2023 32nd Conference on Information Storage and Processing Systems, 2023
Abstract This paper presents the design and implementation of a novel soft gripper using Arc-shaped Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) actuators. The manipulator is designed to have compliance, making it suitable for grasping various objects including irregularly shaped or soft objects.
Hangyeol Baek, Abdul Manan Khan, Vishwanath Bijalwan, Youngshik Kim   +3 more
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Magnetically Guided Soft Robotic Grippers

2019 2nd IEEE International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2019
Soft robotic grippers based on magnetorheological elastomers are proposed. Rigid nonmagnetic skeleton of the gripper is encased by an elastomer with magnetic properties that exhibits soft-touch properties and reacts to external magnetic field. The basic concept of the grippers, their operation and first prototypes are presented together with the ...
Vojtech Skfivan, Ondrej Sodomka, Frantisek Mach   +2 more
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Soft sensored grippers in assembly process

Proceedings 1992 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003
The authors discuss the problem of assembly task realization using soft sensored fingers. Because the object grasped with soft fingers can move with respect to the gripper if an external force is applied, a change in the pressure corresponds to a change in the object position.
B. Borovac, D. J. Seslija, S. Stankovski
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A Soft Robotic Gripper Material Study

2022
Soft robots have gained superiority in outdoor applications compared to traditional robots today. This advantage is clearly due to bio-inspiration and evolving material technology. The objective of this research is to use nanotechnology to improve material qualities.
Mehmet Mert İlman, Hamza Taş
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Programmable Multistable Soft Grippers

2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Soft Robotics (RoboSoft), 2022
Juan C. Osorio, Harith Morgan, Andres F. Arrieta   +2 more
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Bio-inspired multimodal soft grippers: a review

Bioinspiration & Biomimetics
Abstract In nature, organisms have evolved diverse grasping mechanisms to perform vital functions such as hunting and self-defence. These time-tested biological structures, including the arms of octopuses and the trunks of elephants, offer valuable inspiration for designing multimodal soft grippers that can tackle diverse tasks in ...
Minshi Liang, Jiaqi Zhu, Xingxing Ke, Zhiping Chai, Han Ding, Zhigang Wu   +5 more
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