Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Part H, Journal of engineering in medicine
Aug 23, 2021
Millions of people suffer from a decline in grip strength and hand function due to conditions such as chronic disease, injuries, and aging. Hand function decline results in difficulties with performing activities of daily living, where grasping, lift...
Soft robotics
Aug 12, 2021
The human hand is one of the most complex and compact grippers that has arisen as a product of natural genetic engineering; it is highly versatile, as it handles power and precision tasks. Since proper contact points and force directions are required...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Aug 11, 2021
Soft grippers have exhibited considerable advantages owing to their flexible deformation, compliant operation, and safe interaction with objects. The ability to grip solid and liquid objects can greatly expand the application range of the soft grippe...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Aug 5, 2021
Anthropomorphic robotic hands are designed to attain dexterous movements and flexibility much like human hands. Achieving human-like object manipulation remains a challenge especially due to the control complexity of the anthropomorphic robotic hand ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jul 24, 2021
The gripper is the far end of a robotic arm. It is responsible for the contacts between the robot itself and all the items present in a work space, or even in a social space. Therefore, to provide grippers with intelligent behaviors is fundamental, e...
Soft robotics
Jul 21, 2021
Beyond their colorful appearances and versatile geometries, flowers can self-shape-morph by adapting to environmental changes. Nature-inspired artificial systems that mimic their natural counterparts in function, flexibility, and adaptation find an e...
Bioinspiration & biomimetics
Jul 21, 2021
Similar to the end effectors for traditional rigid robots, those for soft robots are essential as the interacting media between the robots and their environments. Inspired by the forelegs of climbing animals, a passively adaptive soft gripper (ASG), ...
Computational intelligence and neuroscience
Jul 20, 2021
Grasp detection based on convolutional neural network has gained some achievements. However, overfitting of multilayer convolutional neural network still exists and leads to poor detection precision. To acquire high detection accuracy, a single targe...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Jul 3, 2021
While suction cups prevail as common gripping tools for a wide range of real-world parts and surfaces, they often fail to seal the contact interface when engaging with irregular shapes and textured surfaces. In this work, the authors propose a suctio...
Soft robotics
Jun 29, 2021
Achieving both high compliance and stiffness is a key issue in stiffness-tunable soft robots. A wide-range variable-stiffness method keeping pure soft characteristic is proposed by bioinspired design of deep-sea glass sponges adopting thermoplastic s...