High-load soft grippers based on bionic winding effect

H Li, J Yao, P Zhou, X Chen, Y Xu, Y Zhao - Soft robotics, 2019 - liebertpub.com
The improvement of the load capacity of soft grippers has always been a challenge. To
tackle this load capacity challenge, this work presents four novel types of high-load (HL) soft …

Design and modeling of a high-load soft robotic gripper inspired by biological winding

H Li, J Yao, P Zhou, W Zhao, Y Xu… - Bioinspiration & …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The improvement of the load capacity of soft robotic grippers has always been a challenge.
The load improvement methods of existing soft robotic grippers mainly include the …

A soft bionic gripper with variable effective length

Y Hao, Z Gong, Z Xie, S Guan, X Yang, T Wang… - Journal of Bionic …, 2018 - Springer
This article presented a four-fingered soft bionic robotic gripper with variable effective
actuator lengths. By combining approaches of finite element analysis, quasi-static analytical …

Bio‐inspired soft grippers based on impactive gripping

L Zhou, L Ren, Y Chen, S Niu, Z Han… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Grasping and manipulation are fundamental ways for many creatures to interact with their
environments. Different morphologies and grasping methods of “grippers” are highly …

A high-load bioinspired soft gripper with force booster fingers

H Li, P Zhou, S Zhang, J Yao, Y Zhao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2022 - Elsevier
Significantly improving the load capacity of soft grippers while taking into account their
flexibility is a challenge that must be addressed to promote their application in more fields …

An untethered soft robotic gripper with high payload-to-weight ratio

H Li, J Yao, C Wei, P Zhou, Y Xu, Y Zhao - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2021 - Elsevier
Most of the soft grippers with high payload cannot carry cumbersome control systems and
power sources themselves, and have to be tethered to external hardware through tubes and …

A vacuum-driven origami “magic-ball” soft gripper

S Li, JJ Stampfli, HJ Xu, E Malkin… - … on Robotics and …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robotics has yielded numerous examples of soft grippers that utilize compliance to
achieve impressive grasping performances with great simplicity, adaptability, and …

Soft pneumatic gripper with a tendon-driven soft origami pump

Y Kim, Y Cha - Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
In this study, we propose a soft pneumatic gripper that uses a tendon-driven soft origami
pump. The gripper consists of three pneumatic soft actuators that are controlled by a tendon …

An enveloping soft gripper with high-load carrying capacity: Design, characterization and application

D Sui, T Wang, S Zhao, X Zhang… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft grippers exhibit impressive grasping performance with great simplicity, compliance,
adaptability, and robustness. However, it is a great challenge for them to achieve high-load …

Easily fabricatable shell gripper for packaging multiple cucumbers simultaneously

R Kanegae, Z Wang, S Hirai - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft robot grippers have been investigated for handling different types of objects and have
been applied in various applications. However, the fabrication of soft robots usually involves …