Robotic Gripper Works in the Dark

Oct-13-17 A new soft robotic gripper can safely manipulate an object in the dark, through touch alone.

The gripper, from a team at the University of California, San Diego, uses tactile sensing in order to map out a “point cloud” of the object in question. Compared to a human reaching in their pocket for their keys, the robotic gripper can twist and model objects with its three soft, pneumatically powered fingers. A coating on the fingers made up of flexible silicon embedded with carbon nanotubes allows the gripper to sense the shape of the object and grasp it safely—even if the robot cannot see it.

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