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The "Pac-Man'' Gripper: Tactile Sensing and Grasping through Thin-Shell Buckling
Kieran Barvenik, Zachary Coogan, Gabriele Librandi +2
Soft and lightweight grippers have greatly enhanced the performance of robotic manipulators in handling complex objects with varying shape, texture, and stiffness. However, the com…
Programming nonreciprocity and reversibility in multistable mechanical metamaterials
Gabriele Librandi, Eleonora Tubaldi, Katia Bertoldi
Nonreciprocity can be passively achieved by harnessing material nonlinearities. In particular, networks of nonlinear bistable elements with asymmetric energy landscapes have recent…
Geometric charges and nonlinear elasticity of soft metamaterials
Yohai Bar-Sinai, Gabriele Librandi, Katia Bertoldi +1
Problems of flexible mechanical metamaterials, and highly deformable porous solids in general, are rich and complex due to nonlinear mechanics and nontrivial geometrical effects. W…
Porous mechanical metamaterials as interacting elastic charges
Gabriele Librandi, Michael Moshe, Yoav Lahini +1
We present an analytical framework to describe the complex nonlinear response of two-dimensional porous mechanical metamaterials. We adopt a geometric approach to elasticity in whi…