Octopus-Inspired Underwater Soft Robotic Gripper with Crawling and Swimming Capabilities.

ABSTRACT: Can a robotic gripper only operate when attached to a robotic arm? The application space of the traditional gripper is limited by the robotic arm. Giving robot grippers the ability to move will expand their range of applications. Inspired by rich behavioral repertoire observed in octopus, we implement an integrated multifunctional soft robotic gripper with 6 independently controlled Arms. It can execute 8 different gripping actions for different objects, such as irregular rigid/soft objects, elongated objects with arbitrary orientation, and plane/curved objects with larger sizes than the grippers. Moreover, the soft gripper can realize omnidirectional crawling and swimming by itself. The soft gripper can perform highly integrated tasks of releasing, crawling, swimming, grasping, and retrie

SUBMITTER: Wu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11350063 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature