Current robotic grippers employ soft and flexible materials to mimic human like grasping behavior. However, they require ...

The gripper/forearm shows the most dramatic improvement from the previous versions, being simplified from 8 separate components to a single 3D printed part by using a compliant mechanism — that ...

Taking inspiration from nature, Harvard SEAS researchers designed a new type of soft, robotic gripper that uses a collection of thin tentacles to entangle and ensnare objects, similar to how ...

Likewise, further investigations have refined compliant constant‐force grippers by employing modified pseudo‐rigid-body models, which ensure enhanced force stability and extended actuation ...

Robots excel at many things, but having a good sense of touch is not among them. Whether dropping items or pinching them too tightly, which crushes the object, many robots struggle with these basic ...