Soft robotic grippers

J Shintake, V Cacucciolo, D Floreano… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

Soft robots manufacturing: A review

F Schmitt, O Piccin, L Barbé, B Bayle - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The growing interest in soft robots comes from the new possibilities offered by these systems
to cope with problems that cannot be addressed by robots built from rigid bodies. Many …

Shape-programmable, deformation-locking, and self-sensing artificial muscle based on liquid crystal elastomer and low–melting point alloy

H Liu, H Tian, X Li, X Chen, K Zhang, H Shi… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
An artificial muscle capable of shape programmability, deformation-locking capacity without
needing continuous external energy, and self-sensing capability is highly desirable yet …

Fast‐response, stiffness‐tunable soft actuator by hybrid multimaterial 3D printing

YF Zhang, N Zhang, H Hingorani… - Advanced Functional …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Soft robots have the appealing advantages of being highly flexible and adaptive to complex
environments. However, the low‐stiffness nature of the constituent materials makes soft …

4D printing of materials for the future: Opportunities and challenges

S Joshi, K Rawat, C Karunakaran, V Rajamohan… - Applied Materials …, 2020 - Elsevier
The concept of 4D printing is its formation of complex three-dimensional structures that have
the ability to adopt different shapes and forms when subjected to different environmental …

4D printing technology in medical engineering: A narrative review

I Sahafnejad-Mohammadi, M Karamimoghadam… - Journal of the Brazilian …, 2022 - Springer
The addition of the time dimension to three-dimensional (3D) printing has introduced four-
dimensional (4D) printing technology, which has gained considerable attention in different …

Bioinspired robotic fingers based on pneumatic actuator and 3D printing of smart material

Y Yang, Y Chen, Y Li, MZQ Chen, Y Wei - Soft robotics, 2017 - liebertpub.com
In this article, we have proposed a novel robotic finger design principle aimed to address
two challenges in soft pneumatic grippers—the controllability of the stiffness and the …

Multimode grasping soft gripper achieved by layer jamming structure and tendon-driven mechanism

B Fang, F Sun, L Wu, F Liu, X Wang, H Huang… - Soft …, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Robotic grasping has become increasingly important in many application areas such as
industrial manufacturing and logistics. Because of the diversity and uncertainty of objects …

Stiffness-tunable soft gripper with soft-rigid hybrid actuation for versatile manipulations

L Li, F Xie, T Wang, G Wang, Y Tian, T Jin, Q Zhang - Soft Robotics, 2022 - liebertpub.com
Highly flexible and environmentally adaptive soft robots have received considerable
attention. There remains a demand for soft robots to realize the stiffness modulation and …

[PDF][PDF] 软体机械手研究综述

张进华, 王韬, 洪军, 王煜 - 机械工程学报, 2017 - qikan.cmes.org
软体机械手(下面简称软体手) 是一种由柔性材料制成的新型机械装置. 凭借柔性材料天然的柔顺
性和适应性, 软体机械手具有了高灵活性, 复杂环境适应性和安全人机交互性等特点 …