This article reports on the state of the art of artificial hands, discussing some of the field's
most important trends and suggesting directions for future research. We review and group …

Soft robotics is a recent and rapidly growing field of research that encompasses emerging
advances in functional materials, fabrication, modelling, and performance control with …

Unlike traditional hard grippers, soft robotic grippers are commonly made of soft materials so
that the soft grippers can produce motion via elastic deformations of their compliant …

Numerous soft grippers have been developed based on smart materials, pneumatic soft
actuators, and underactuated compliant structures. In this article, we present a three …

Nowadays, harvesting delicate and high-value fruits, vegetables, and edible fungi requires a
large input of manual human labor. The relatively low wages and many health problems the …

A single universal robotic gripper with the capacity to fulfill a wide variety of gripping and
grasping tasks has always been desirable. A three-dimensional (3D) printed modular soft …

This article presents a new cable-driven underactuated robotic gripper, called TWISTER
Hand. It is designed for adaptable grasping of objects in different shapes, weights, sizes …

Soft robots and actuators are emerging devices providing more capabilities in the field of
robotics. More flexibility and compliance attributing to soft functional materials used in the …

This study addresses a design and calibration methodology based on numerical finite
element method (FEM) modeling for the development of a soft tactile sensor able to …

Various robotic grippers have been developed over the past several decades for robotic
manipulators. Especially, the soft grippers based on the soft pneumatic actuator (SPA) have …