Advances in material sciences, control algorithms, and manufacturing techniques have
facilitated rapid progress in soft grippers, propelling their adoption in various fields. In this …

Soft robotics technology has been rapidly expanding in recent years due to its advantages in
flexibility and safety for human operators. Within this trend, soft grippers enable more …

To adapt to constantly changing environments and be safe for human interaction, robots
should have compliant and soft characteristics as well as the ability to sense the world …

Equipping soft robotic grippers with sensing and perception capabilities faces significant
challenges due to their high compliance and flexibility, limiting their ability to successfully …

The synthesis of tactile sensing with compliance is essential to many fields, from agricultural
usages like fruit picking, to sustainability practices such as sorting recycling, to the creation …

With continuously shrinking batch sizes and increasing order numbers the handling of
different object variants becomes a key parameter for the automatization of assembly …

The demand for flexible grasping of various objects by robotic hands in the industry is
rapidly growing. To address this, we propose a novel variable stiffness gripper (VSG). The …

This paper introduces a soft robotic manipulator with variable stiffness capability. A novel
compact hybrid and antagonistic actuation method is proposed, inspired by the muscle …

Nowadays, achieving the stable grasping of objects in robotics requires an increased
emphasis on soft interactions. This research introduces a novel gripper design to achieve a …

Morphing materials are typically either very compliant to achieve large shape changes or
very stiff but with small shape changes that require large actuation forces. Interestingly, fish …