This gripper uses a flexible membrane full of granular material which can form around the item to be picked up. The air is then sucked out of the membrane which cases the grains to be pulled ...

The granular bag, however, seemed equally adept at gripping small or larger, heavier objects. Of course, the gripper did struggle with some objects—one of the more elusive targets was a cotton ball.

Back in 2010, we first heard about a clever device known as the robotic universal jamming gripper. With its business end composed of a party balloon filled with coffee grounds, it could form a ...

The super-durable rubbery bulb is pressed into an object, allowing the granular material to fill in around it and solidify when the air is pulled out (in under 0.5 seconds).

The gripper consisted of a balloon-like ball filled with sand-like granular material.

The robot gripper invented by researchers at the University of Chicago and Cornell University is now available commercially. ... Through jamming granular materials or particles, which can flow and act ...

Granular materials have been used as a model system to help scientists study materials that behave similarly, like glass, which is structurally like a liquid, but behaves like a solid. ... Instead of ...

The grip then comes from three factors. First, there is the friction between the bag and the surface of the object, there can also be a suction effect if the bag forms an airtight seal around part ...

If your job involves tasks such as sorting springs and screws or unloading dishwashers, a robot replacement may soon be on the way.For now, the granular-gripper robot demonstrated in the video ...

A Physically Intelligent, Multimodal Universal Soft Gripper Using Granular Materials. Journal: Advanced Functional Materials Published: 2025-02-11 DOI: ...