{"id":132488,"date":"2021-12-16T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/stanfords-gecko-inspired-robot-hand-sets-its-sights-on-fruit-picking"},"modified":"2021-12-16T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T08:23:53","slug":"stanfords-gecko-inspired-robot-hand-sets-its-sights-on-fruit-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/stanfords-gecko-inspired-robot-hand-sets-its-sights-on-fruit-picking","title":{"rendered":"Stanford\u2019s gecko-inspired robot hand sets its sights on fruit picking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/km_M9KyTpsY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Stanford\u2019s made a lot of progress over the years with its gecko-inspired robotic hand. In May, a version of the \u201cgecko gripper\u201d even found its way onto the International Space Station to test its ability to perform tasks like collecting debris and fixing satellites.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.abi9773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a paper published today in Science Robotics<\/a>, researchers at the university are demonstrating a far more terrestrial application for the tech: picking delicate objects. It\u2019s something that\u2019s long been a challenge for rigid robot hands, leading to a wide range of different solutions, including soft robotic grippers.<\/p>\n<p>The team is showing off FarmHand, a four-fingered gripper inspired by both the dexterity of the human hand and the unique gripping capabilities of geckos. Of the latter, Stanford notes that the adhesive surface \u201ccreates a strong hold via microscopic flaps \u2014 Van der Waals force \u2013 a weak intermolecular force that results from subtle differences in the positions of electrons on the outsides of molecules.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanford\u2019s made a lot of progress over the years with its gecko-inspired robotic hand. In May, a version of the \u201cgecko gripper\u201d even found its way onto the International Space Station to test its ability to perform tasks like collecting debris and fixing satellites. In a paper published today in Science Robotics, researchers at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}