5 papers
Grasp Synthesis Matching From Rigid To Soft Robot Grippers Using Conditional Flow Matching
Tanisha Parulekar, Ge Shi, Josh Pinskier +2
A representation gap exists between grasp synthesis for rigid and soft grippers. Anygrasp [1] and many other grasp synthesis methods are designed for rigid parallel grippers, and a…
ReefFlex: A Generative Design Framework for Soft Robotic Grasping of Organic and Fragile objects
Josh Pinskier, Sarah Baldwin, Stephen Rodan +1
Climate change, invasive species and human activities are currently damaging the world's coral reefs at unprecedented rates, threatening their vast biodiversity and fisheries, and…
Programmable Telescopic Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Deployable and Shape Morphing Soft Robots
Joel Kemp, Andre Farinha, David Howard +2
Soft Robotics presents a rich canvas for free-form and continuum devices capable of exerting forces in any direction and transforming between arbitrary configurations. However, the…
SoGraB: A Visual Method for Soft Grasping Benchmarking and Evaluation
Benjamin G. Greenland, Josh Pinskier, Xing Wang +5
Recent years have seen soft robotic grippers gain increasing attention due to their ability to robustly grasp soft and fragile objects. However, a commonly available standardised e…
DexGrip: Multi-modal Soft Gripper with Dexterous Grasping and In-hand Manipulation Capacity
Xing Wang, Liam Horrigan, Josh Pinskier +6
The ability of robotic grippers to not only grasp but also re-position and re-orient objects in-hand is crucial for achieving versatile, general-purpose manipulation. While recent…