Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have taken inspiration from nature to develop a new robotic gripper.
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Bio‐Inspired Soft Grippers Based on Impactive Gripping - Zhou - 2021 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library
Soft Tendril-Inspired Grippers: Shape Morphing of Programmable Polymer–Paper Bilayer Composites
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Bio‐Inspired Soft Grippers Based on Impactive Gripping - Zhou - 2021 - Advanced Science - Wiley Online Library