Inspired by the morphology of human fingers, this paper proposes an underactuated rigid-
soft coupled robotic gripper whose finger is designed as the combination of a rigid skeleton …

Robotic grasping has become increasingly important in many application areas such as
industrial manufacturing and logistics. Because of the diversity and uncertainty of objects …

Robots are playing an increasingly important role in engineering applications. Soft robots
have promising applications in several fields due to their inherent advantages of …

The application of soft robotics improves the compliance of robotic fingers, which, however,
usually loses sufficient stiffness. Here, a biomimetic soft‐rigid hybrid (BSH) finger that can …

Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable
attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and …

The robotic gripper is an essential component for handling, manipulating, and transporting
objects. However, the parallel rigid gripper, which is one of the most widely used grippers in …

Many robotic systems face substantial challenges when trying to grasp and manipulate
objects. Thought of initially as humanoid automata a century ago, this viewpoint is still …

Soft grippers are widely studied and utilized in soft robotics owing to their advantages in
terms of compliance, safety, and adaptability. Limited by the mechanical design and driving …

This article presents a two-finger soft-robotic gripper with enveloping grasping (EG) and
pinching grasping (PG) modes. The proposed soft-robotic gripper is based on a two-finger …

Human finger excels at delicate and dynamic gripping tasks via coordinating soft tissues and
rigid components, which is yet considerably challenging for robotic grippers. Herein …