Close-up image of a 3D Printed Gripper That Doesn’t Need Electronics To Function (IMAGE)
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Close-up image of a soft robotic gripper that is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn’t need any electronics to work. The device was developed by a team of roboticists at the University of California San Diego, in collaboration with researchers at the BASF corporation, who detailed their work in a recent issue of Science Robotics. The researchers wanted to design a soft gripper that would be ready to use right as it comes off the 3D printer, equipped with built in gravity and touch sensors. As a result, the gripper can pick up, hold, and release objects. No such gripper existed before this work.
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University of California San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
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