Gras** unstructured objects and sensing the contact force are two vital issues for grippers.
However, it is still difficult for most existing grippers to realize these two functions …

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 …

The sorting and processing of food raw materials is an important step in the food production
process, and the quality of the sorting operation can directly or indirectly affect the quality of …

There has been an increase in the variety of harvesting manipulators. However, sometimes
the lack of efficiency of these manipulators makes it difficult to compete with harvesting tasks …

Rapid aerial gras** through robots can lead to many applications that utilize fast and
dynamic picking and placing of objects. Rigid grippers traditionally used in aerial …

Flap**-wing MAVs are starting to emulate the advanced flight maneuverability of insects
and birds, however they struggle to achieve a similar aptitude for taking off and landing in …

Aiming at the problems that tomatoes are fragile and the traditional end‐effector design is
not suitable for tomato picking, a combination of the bionic principle of FRE structure and …

Fin Ray soft grippers, as a notable passive compliant structures, can be easily actuated by
external devices to adapt their shape to conform to a grasped object. Their unique ability is …

Robotic systems for research and development of factory automation are complex and
unavailable for broad deployment in robotic laboratory settings. The usual robotic factory …

Variable stiffness grippers can adapt to objects with different shapes and grip** forces.
This paper presents a novel variable stiffness gripper (VSG) based on the Fin Ray effect that …