The field of soft robotics is rapidly advancing, with a focus on developing innovative grasping and manipulation technologies. Recent research has explored the use of hybrid gripper fingers, modular soft grippers, and deformable origami modules to enhance grasping performance and adaptability. These advancements have the potential to improve the flexibility and safety of robotic systems in handling delicate, fragile, and diverse objects. Notable papers in this area include the development of a hybrid gripper finger with adaptable friction, a modular soft gripper with whole-body proprioceptive morphing, and a multi-finger hybrid gripper featuring passively deformable origami modules. These innovative designs and technologies are expected to have a significant impact on the development of next-generation soft robotic systems.
Advances in Soft Robotic Grasping and Manipulation
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Hybrid Gripper Finger Enabling In-Grasp Friction Modulation Using Inflatable Silicone Pockets
Whole-Body Proprioceptive Morphing: A Modular Soft Gripper for Robust Cross-Scale Grasping
Adaptive and Multi-object Grasping via Deformable Origami Modules
Thermo-responsive closing and reopening artificial Venus Flytrap utilizing shape memory elastomers
Design and Fabrication of Origami-Inspired Knitted Fabrics for Soft Robotics
Model to Model: Understanding the Venus Flytrap Snapping Mechanism and Transferring it to a 3D-printed Bistable Soft Robotic Demonstrator
Design and development of an electronics-free earthworm robot
Lightweight Learning from Actuation-Space Demonstrations via Flow Matching for Whole-Body Soft Robotic Grasping
SuckTac: Camera-based Tactile Sucker for Unstructured Surface Perception and Interaction
Non-Contact Manipulation of Induced Magnetic Dipoles
Differential Flatness of Quasi-Static Slider-Pusher Models with Applications in Control