A leaf-based model of the robotic gripper
Hong, Y., Zhao, Y., Berman, J. et al.
A robotic gripper constituted of versatile ribbons can choose up objects as delicate as a dandelion to one thing 16,000 instances heavier than itself.
Most robotic grippers are specialised to carry out a slender set of duties, however performing properly in a single area usually entails a trade-off. A device properly suited to choosing up heavy objects, for instance, usually struggles to govern a lot lighter, intricate objects.
Jie Yin at North Carolina State College and his colleagues have developed a gripper that avoids a lot of …