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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Soft Grippers"”.
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Using Rigid and Soft Grippers for Assistive Robotic Tasks
… Today's robots often grasp objects with either soft grippers or rigid end-effectors. However, purely rigid or purely soft grippers have fundamental limitations: soft grippers struggle with irregular, heavy objects, while rigid grippers often cannot grasp small, numerous items. Combining the …
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Shape memory polymer adhesive gripper for pick-and-place applications
… adhesion of SMP. Compared with common finger or soft grippers, the SMP adhesive gripper interacts with a single surface of a target object for pick-and-place. Furthermore, it is easy and inexpensive to manufacture and applicable to various surfaces since it involves reversible dry adhesion. In …
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Don’t Over Think It: Mechanically Intelligent Manipulation
… to contribute to functionality. We develop two grippers that serve as examples of this idea, Belt Orienting Phalanges and Flexible Robust Observant Gripper. Belt Orienting Phalanges (BOP) enables in-hand manipulation through the addition of two belts on each finger of a parallel-jaw gripper, …
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An investigation into biomimetic gripping based on insect tarsal chains
Existing robotic grippers can be highly capable in terms of precision and power, but tend to lack versatility. Over the last decades, this fact has resulted in the inception of soft grippers - systems that are softer, more compliant and - often - come without discrete joints. These properties make …
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Design and analysis of a soft spiral gripper
… in recent years for their umpteen advantages. Soft robots are a class of continuum robots which are made of squishy materials which have the added benefit of being innocuous to humans. Soft robotic grippers are one of the major application of soft robots as they have the ability to conform and …