The article "This soft
robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you" introduces how in
2017, a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego designed
and built a soft robotic grip and its features. The soft robotic gripper can
"pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to
be trained." It has three fingers made of pneumatic chambers with many
degrees of freedom allowing manipulation of the held object. A smart sensing
skin made of silicon rubber with embedded sensors made of conducting carbon
nanotubes covers each of these three fingers. The sensing skin records and
detects the nanotubes conductivity changes as the fingers bend. The data is
then processed by the control board, which then creates a 3D model of the
object the gripper is manipulating.
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