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. The
gripper developed in the Distributed Robotics Laboratory at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) is a similar product to the soft robotic gripper.
However, the soft robotic gripper has more practical applications.
The article "This soft robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you" (University of California - San Diego, 2017) introduces how in 2017, a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) designed and built a soft robotic grip and its features. The soft robotic gripper is able to "pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to be trained." (University of California - San Diego, 2017) . 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. There are similar grippers developed by the Distributed...
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