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 …

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 …

Soft actuators can be classified into five categories: tendon-driven actuators, electroactive
polymers, shape-memory materials, soft fluidic actuators (SFAs), and hybrid actuators. The …

Aiming at combining compliant covering and rigid lifting to the object grasping, this paper
presents the design principle of a variable stiffness soft gripper and carries out its structural …

The technological differences between traditional robotics and soft robotics have an impact
on all of the modeling tools generally in use, including direct kinematics and inverse models …

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 …

This article presents the design of a variable stiffness, soft, three-fingered dexterous gripper.
The gripper uses two designs of McKibben muscles. Extensor muscles that increase in …

Global berry production and consumption have significantly increased in recent years,
coinciding with increased consumer awareness of the health-promoting benefits of berries …

Rigid grippers used in existing aerial manipulators require precise positioning to achieve
successful grasps and transmit large contact forces that may destabilize the drone. This …

Soft grippers and actuators have attracted increasing attention due to safer and more
adaptable human–machine and environment–machine interactions than their rigid …