Also: soft robotic gripper, gecko gripper
Robot hands that borrow sticking tricks from geckos and other animals.
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Glick and colleagues combined fluidic elastomer actuators with gecko-inspired adhesives, improving grasps of large objects without losing performance on rough or dirty surfaces.
As reported in: Glick, Suresh, Ruffatto et al. (2018). A Soft Robotic Gripper With Gecko-Inspired Adhesive. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters. doi:10.1109/lra.2018.2792688
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