{"id":168623,"date":"2023-07-29T18:22:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T23:22:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/3d-printed-robotic-gripper-doesnt-need-electronics-to-function"},"modified":"2023-07-29T18:22:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T23:22:25","slug":"3d-printed-robotic-gripper-doesnt-need-electronics-to-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/3d-printed-robotic-gripper-doesnt-need-electronics-to-function","title":{"rendered":"3D printed robotic gripper doesn\u2019t need electronics to function"},"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\/A5mpy3X1dcc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A new soft robotic gripper is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn\u2019t 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 Science Robotics.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers wanted to design a soft <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/gripper\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">gripper<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe designed functions so that a series of valves would allow the gripper to both grip on contact and release at the right time,\u201d said Yichen Zhai, a postdoctoral researcher in the Bioinspired Robotics and Design Lab at the University of California San Diego and the leading author of the paper. \u201cIt\u2019s the first time such a gripper can both grip and release. All you have to do is turn the gripper horizontally. This triggers a change in the airflow in the valves, making the two fingers of the gripper release.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new soft robotic gripper is not only 3D printed in one print, it also doesn\u2019t 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 Science Robotics. The researchers wanted [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}