Soft robotic grippers are the perfect aid for machines that need to pick up irregularly shaped or delicate objects, like your groceries. The latest example from MIT’s Computer Science and ...

Soft Robotics' RL7 and other grippers can reliably perform some of the physical tasks we do countless times a day but take for granted. TechCrunch Desktop Logo TechCrunch Mobile Logo.

Engineers develop soft robotic gripper Inspired by twining plants, it has a variety of possible applications Date: December 15, 2020 Source: University of Georgia ...

Read also: Robot builds an Ikea chair. Everyone goes nuts. As I wrote in 2018 following Soft Robotics' Series A, building a better gripper is now akin to the age-old quest to build a better mousetrap.

With today’s announcement, Soft Robotics introduces the Soft Robotics Development Kit — UR+ (SRDK-UR+), the first plug-and-play Soft Robotics customizable gripper system designed specifically ...

Getting the Right Grip: Designing Soft and Sensitive Robotic Fingers Dec. 10, 2020 — To develop a more human-like robotic gripper, it is necessary to provide sensing capabilities to the fingers.

The less energy that a robot uses to perform its assigned duties, the better. A new soft robotic gripper was created with this fact in mind, as it grasps and releases objects without using any ...

Inspired by ancient Japanese paper art, scientists create a gripper that could give robot hands a softer, more dexterous touch. This innovative robotic gripper can pick up a single grain of sand ...

Surprisingly, it’s as soft to the touch as the silicone commonly used in soft robotics. Once more fully developed, the gripper could find interesting applications in various industries ...

The gripper itself has been created with silicone-based rubber and a mixture of soft and hard materials which distributes force across the robot, enabling a strong grip, conformation to the object ...

More information: Mehmet Mert İlman et al, In situ foliar augmentation of multiple species for optical phenotyping and bioengineering using soft robotics, Science Robotics (2025). DOI: 10.1126 ...

Robotic gripper designer Soft Robotics Inc. has landed $23 million in venture capital from funders including the robotic arm manufacturer Fanuc, and plans to use the new backing to accelerate its ...