A new generation of soft functional materials and actuator designs has ushered the
development of highly advanced soft grippers as adaptive alternatives to traditional rigid end …

Picking various objects in cluttered narrow space automatically is required for warehouse
automation. In this space, multi-fingered robot hands have difficulty in grasping objects as …

Advances in sensor technologies, object detection algorithms, planning frameworks and
hardware designs have motivated the deployment of robots in warehouse automation. A …

This study proposes a novel robotic gripper driven by a single motor. The main task is to pick
up objects in confined spaces. For this purpose, the developed gripper has three operating …

The success of hybrid suction+ parallel-jaw grippers in the Amazon Robotics/Picking
Challenge have demonstrated the effectiveness of multimodal grasping approaches …

Rearranging objects on a planar surface arises in a variety of robotic applications, such as
product packaging. Using two arms can improve efficiency but introduces new …

In an environment where a manipulator needs to execute multiple consecutive tasks, the act
of object manoeuvre will change the underlying configuration space, affecting all …

This letter proposes a novel single-fingered reconfigurable robotic gripper for grasping
objects in narrow working spaces. The finger of the developed gripper realizes two …

This paper introduces the concept of underactuated vacuum gripper (UVG), which combines
two strategies, that is, underactuation and vacuum grasping. The idea is to achieve shape …

A concept consisting of a new configurable vacuum gripper system and a corresponding
method for determining optimal grasp configurations solely based on 3D vision is …