Developing large, soft grippers with high omnidirectional load (above 40 kg) has always
been challenging. We address this challenge by developing a powerful soft gripper that can …

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 …

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 …

Pneumatic soft grippers made of silicone have been successfully applied in the industrial
field of grabbing fragile objects. But their inherent low stiffness often limits the practical …

Soft grippers have attracted increasing attention due to safer and more adaptable human–
machine and environment-machine interactions. However, it has always been a challenge …

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 …

Grasping is a key task for robots to interact with humans and the environment. Soft grippers
have been widely studied and some have been applied in industry and daily life. Typical soft …

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 …

Compared with traditional rigid grippers, soft grippers are made of lightweight and soft
materials and have the characteristics of flexible contact and strong adaptability, which are …

This work presents the design and test of a novel fabric-based versatile and stiffness-tunable
soft gripper integrating soft pneumatic fingers and wrist. The morphology is designed into a …