Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
As an effective way to grasp an object softly and robustly, many soft grippers have been developed and reported. However, it is still difficult to grasp objects that are easily damaged by local contact forces such as fruits. This paper proposes a soft gripper which grasps such easily damaged objects by wrapping around. This approach gives a wide area of contact and reduces local contact forces. Moreover, this gripper is composed of only soft materials and integrally molded. The opening-closing mechanism is realized by using snap-through-buckling. In this paper, we show the design concept and the performance of the first prototype of the gripper.
