- Folks blessed with a soft touch seem to have no problem getting to grips with delicate objects, but it can be a tough ask for robots.
- Everything from a venus fly trap to an elephant to an octopus have provided inspiration for a bunch of soft robotic gripper designs over the years, and this latest development looked at how jellyfish tentacles take hold of prey.
- Each individual tube has a gentle touch to prevent damage to a fragile object, but the combined effort of multiple tubes twisting around even oddly-shaped objects – and each other – gives the gripper enough strength for lift and hold operation.
Robot tackles the knotty problem of grasping delicate objects
