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Advancement in Soft Hydrogel Grippers: Comprehensive Insights into Materials, Fabrication Strategies, Grasping Mechanism, and Applications

Biomimetics
Soft hydrogel grippers have attracted considerable attention due to their flexible/elastic bodies, stimuli-responsive grasping and releasing capacity, and novel applications in specific task fields.
Xiaoxiao Dong, Chen Wang, Haoxin Song, Jinqiang Shao, Guiyao Lan, Jiaming Zhang, Xiangkun Li, Ming Li   +7 more
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A novel soft gripper based on improved liquid crystal elastomer actuator

AIP Advances, 2020
Flexible intelligent materials have been created by imitating natural intelligence and have been used to create soft robots, such as soft grippers with a wide variety of complicated functions.
Ziyue You, Fu Liu, Tao Hou
doaj   +1 more source

Online weight estimation in a robotic gripper arm [PDF]

, 2016
This paper presents a novel methodology for online, fast and accurate weight estimation technique in a robotic gripper arm. The laboratory setup is inspired from several real life applications of weight estimation in moving cranes, e.g.
Copot, Dana, De Keyser, Robain, Ionescu, Clara-Mihaela, Nascu, Ioan   +3 more
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Grasping Profile Control of a Soft Pneumatic Robotic Gripper for Delicate Gripping

Robotics, 2023
Soft pneumatic grippers (SPGs) have garnered significant attention and recognition in various industries owing to their remarkable flexibility, safety, and adaptability.
Gridsada Phanomchoeng, Patchara Pitchayawetwongsa, Nattaphat Boonchumanee, Saravut Lin, Ratchatin Chancharoen   +4 more
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Recursive Least Squares Filtering Algorithms for On-Line Viscoelastic Characterization of Biosamples [PDF]

, 2018
The mechanical characterization of biological samples is a fundamental issue in biology and related fields, such as tissue and cell mechanics, regenerative medicine and diagnosis of diseases.
Aceto, Maria, Di Giamberardino, Paolo, Giannini, Oliviero, Verotti, Matteo   +3 more
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Soft Robotic Grippers for Crop Handling or Harvesting: A Review

IEEE Access, 2022
Nowadays, harvesting delicate and high-value fruits, vegetables, and edible fungi requires a large input of manual human labor. The relatively low wages and many health problems the workforce faces make this profession increasingly unpopular.
Johannes F. Elfferich, Dimitra Dodou, Cosimo Della Santina   +2 more
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State of the Art Robotic Grippers and Applications

Robotics, 2016
In this paper, we present a recent survey on robotic grippers. In many cases, modern grippers outperform their older counterparts which are now stronger, more repeatable, and faster.
Kevin Tai, Abdul-Rahman El-Sayed, Mohammadali Shahriari, Mohammad Biglarbegian, Shohel Mahmud   +4 more
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Additive Manufacturing of Continuous Fibre Reinforced Composites: Process, Characterisation, Modelling, and Sustainability

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Additive manufacturing provides precise control over the placement of continuous fibres within polymer matrices, enabling customised mechanical performance in composite components. This article explores processing strategies, mechanical testing, and modelling approaches for additive manufactured continuous fibre‐reinforced composites.
Cherian Thomas, Amir Hosein Sakhaei
wiley   +1 more source

3D‐Printed Mechano‐Optic Force Sensor for Soft Robotic Gripper Enabled by Programmable Structural Metamaterials

Advanced Intelligent Systems
Rapid deployment of automation in today's world has opened up exciting possibilities in the realm of design and fabrication of soft robotic grippers endowed with sensing capabilities.
Chidanand Hegde, Ravi Chaithanya Mysa, Aaron Chooi, Saikrishna Dontu, Joel Ming Rui Tan, Lydia Helena Wong, Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, Shlomo Magdassi   +7 more
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Robots claiming space: gauging public reaction using computer vision techniques [PDF]

, 2018
Handling delicate crops without damaging or bruising is a challenge facing the au-tomation of tasks within the agri-food sector, which encourages the utilization of soft grippers that are inherently safe and passively compliant.
Aitken, Jonathan, Alboul, Lyuba, Bhowmik, Deepayan, Cameron, David, Collins, Emily, Conti, Daniela, Di Nuovo, Alessandro, Law, James, Lucas, Alexandr, Penders, Jacques, Popa, Inna, Rolph, Joe, Soranzo, Alessandro, Varrasi, Simone, Wang, Jing, Young, Jay   +15 more
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