{"id":194970,"date":"2024-08-22T17:24:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/designing-the-ideal-soft-gripper-for-diverse-functionalities"},"modified":"2024-08-22T17:24:02","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T22:24:02","slug":"designing-the-ideal-soft-gripper-for-diverse-functionalities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/designing-the-ideal-soft-gripper-for-diverse-functionalities","title":{"rendered":"Designing the ideal soft gripper for diverse functionalities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/designing-the-ideal-soft-gripper-for-diverse-functionalities2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robotic automation has become a game-changer in addressing labor shortages. While traditional rigid grippers have effectively automated various routine tasks, boosting efficiency and productivity in industries that deal with objects of well-defined specifications, they fall short in sectors like the food industry, where delicate objects of varying sizes and shapes need to be handled. In these cases, a more specialized type of gripper is required.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBioinspired <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/soft+robotics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">soft robotics<\/a> seeks to develop technologies that draw inspiration from nature and leverage <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/advanced+materials\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">advanced materials<\/a> and fabrication processes,\u201d said Dr. Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, Associate Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).<\/p>\n<p>Soft grippers inspired by the natural dexterity and control of human hands are particularly well-suited to the <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/food+industry\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">food industry<\/a>. They can adapt to objects of varying sizes and shapes while distributing forces more evenly, making them ideal for handling delicate items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic automation has become a game-changer in addressing labor shortages. While traditional rigid grippers have effectively automated various routine tasks, boosting efficiency and productivity in industries that deal with objects of well-defined specifications, they fall short in sectors like the food industry, where delicate objects of varying sizes and shapes need to be handled. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194970","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194970\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}