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 …

Compared with rigid grippers, soft grippers show fantastic adaptability and flexibility in
grasping irregularly shaped and fragile objects. However, the low stiffness of the soft …

The compliance of soft grippers contributes to their great superiority over rigid grippers in
grasping irregularly shaped objects and forming soft contact with environments. Due to a …

This article presents a novel soft robotic gripper with a high payload capacity based on the
layer jamming technology. Soft robots have a high adaptability, however suffer a low …

Soft grippers show adaptability and flexibility in grasping irregularly shaped and fragile
objects. However, the low loading capacity and less deformation limit the soft gripper for …

Soft robots based on particle jamming cannot return to the initial position and initial
mechanical state due to the accumulation of particles after removing the particle jamming …

For a good soft gripper, it is desirable to have many grasping modes, variable stiffness and
high load capacity in order to adapt to all sort of target objects. However, most of the existing …

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 …

In this research, a soft robotic gripper with a variable stiffness enabled by a novel positive
pressure layer jamming technology was developed and fabricated in two materials using …

This article presents the design and fabrication of a variable stiffness soft gripper based on
layer jamming. Traditional layer jamming units have some limitations, such as complicated …