This robotic hand can help you pick your food items and plate your dish.
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design’s (SUTD) Bio-Inspired Robotics and Design Laboratory have developed a new reconfigurable workspace soft (RWS) robotic gripper that can scoop, pick and grasp items as small as rice, thin as business cards, or as heavy as detergent refill bags.
Led by Assistant Professor Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado, the SUTD research team designed the RWS gripper using multimodal actuation, in which the grasping workspace of a soft gripper can be changed rapidly for payloads with different contact area requirements. Their research study titled 'A Multimodal, Reconfigurable Workspace Soft Gripper for Advanced Grasping Tasks' was published in Soft Robotics. (https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.108...)
To learn more on Asst Prof Valdivia y Alvarado's research on soft robotics, head over to the BRD Lab's website: https://brd.sutd.edu.sg/
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