Soft robotic compliant two-finger gripper mechanism for adaptive and gentle food handling

A Milojević, S Linß, H Handroos - 2021 IEEE 4th International …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the field of soft robotics there is still a great need for a versatile, simple, and affordable
gripper with a high level of adaptability to unknown objects of different sizes, shapes, and …

The quad-spatula gripper: A novel soft-rigid gripper for food handling

A Gafer, D Heymans, D Prattichizzo… - 2020 3rd IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robotic food handling is a complicated task to perform when the ingredients that are
handled are delicate in nature. It is important to design end-effectors that can be versatile …

ReSoft Gripper: A reconfigurable soft gripper with monolithic fingers and differential mechanism for versatile and delicate grasping

AT Mathew, I Hussain, C Stefanini… - 2021 IEEE 4th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Variations in size and geometry of objects and the need for a delicate grasp are major
challenges for the development of grippers for the agri-food industry. To address this, we …

Robotic grippers for large and soft object manipulation

K Takács, A Mason, LB Christensen… - 2020 IEEE 20th …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Grasping has always been considered a key domain of cyber-physical systems, through
which action physical interaction can be achieved. This paper presents a systematic review …

A novel simple, adaptive, and versatile soft-robotic compliant two-finger gripper with an inherently gentle touch

A Milojević, S Linß, Ž Ćojbašić… - Journal of …, 2021 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
In soft robotics, there is still a great need for a universal but simple gripper that realizes a
high level of adaptability as well as a gentle touch to a wide variety of unknown objects of …

made grippers for soft food grasping

S Ma, L Du, E Tsuchiya… - 2020 17th International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft food grasping in the food processing field is challenging for traditional robot hands
because of the large demand, special hygiene cleanness and damage-free requirements …

Stiffness-tunable soft gripper with soft-rigid hybrid actuation for versatile manipulations

L Li, F Xie, T Wang, G Wang, Y Tian, T Jin, Q Zhang - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable
attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and …

A novel variable stiffness soft robotic gripper

DDK Arachchige, Y Chen, ID Walker… - 2021 IEEE 17th …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Compliant grasping is crucial for secure handling objects not only vary in shapes but also in
mechanical properties. We propose a novel soft robotic gripper with decoupled stiffness and …

A Dual-Modal Hybrid Gripper with Wide Tunable Contact Stiffness Range and High Compliance for Adaptive and Wide-Range Grasping Objects with Diverse …

J Zhu, H Chen, Z Chai, H Ding, Z Wu - Soft Robotics, 2024 - liebertpub.com
The difficulties of traditional rigid/soft grippers in meeting the increasing performance
expectations (eg, high grasping adaptability and wide graspable objects range) of a single …

A tendon-driven, preloaded, pneumatically actuated, soft robotic gripper with a telescopic palm

J Meng, L Gerez, J Chapman… - 2020 3rd IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we present a highly adaptive, 3-fingered, soft robotic gripper with a reasonably
low weight (657 g) that is capable of grasping various everyday life objects. The employed …