Grasping is an important characteristic of robots in interacting with humans and the
environment. Due to the inherent compliance of soft grippers, they can easily adapt to novel …

This article presents the design principle and fabrication of a variable stiffness soft robotic
gripper for adaptive grasping and robust holding. The proposed robotic gripper is based on …

Soft grippers and actuators have attracted increasing attention due to safer and more
adaptable human–machine and environment–machine interactions than their rigid …

Despite good performance in grasping irregular fragile objects, soft grippers exhibiting low
stiffness, and carrying capacity lack multidirectional grasping ability in the case of inclination …

This study is focused on developing a new dexterous soft robotic gripper with three fingers
and an active palm capable of performing in-hand manipulation purposes. This innovative …

This article describes a novel design of bioinspired soft robotic fingers based upon hybrid
jamming principle—integrated layer jamming and particle jamming. The finger combines a …

The goal of robotic manipulators is to grasp objects of irregular shapes with better precision
and efficiency. Universal grippers developed in recent years are designed with excessive …

This article presents a novel robotic palm with a dual-layered structure designed to yield
high surface conformity and controllable rigidity for enhanced grasping performance. It …

In soft bending gripper design, the concept of passive particle jamming can play an
important role in improving certain properties of the gripper. It has been proved that its …

A novel soft-robotic gripper design is presented, with three soft bending fingers and one
passively adaptive palm. Each soft finger comprises two ellipse-profiled pneumatic …