{"id":559645,"date":"2021-05-26T10:04:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?p=559645"},"modified":"2021-05-26T10:58:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T14:58:39","slug":"tri-shares-design-soft-bubble-gripper-advance-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/tri-shares-design-soft-bubble-gripper-advance-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"TRI shares design of Soft Bubble Gripper to advance technology"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Toyota Research Institute’s Soft Bubble Gripper. | Credit: Toyota Research Institute<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

As part of its effort to improve robotic manipulation, Toyota Research Institute (TRI) in September 2020 unveiled its Soft Bubble Gripper<\/a>. It features two fingers that both combine the advantages of compliant gripping with real-time, real-world tactile sensing. TRI said the Soft Bubble Gripper can perform a range of tasks that would be difficult for rigid grippers to accomplish.<\/p>\n

Now TRI is seeking your help to continue to advance the field of soft robotics. TRI is sharing the design source files and full build instruction so research institutions and robotics can build their own soft gripper. You can learn how to build its Soft Bubble Gripper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe soft robotics community is small, and the visuo-tactile sensing community is even smaller,\u201d said Alex Alspach, TRI\u2019s robotics tactile team manager and the lead developer of the Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper. \u201cBy sharing the blueprints for this gripper with the world, we hope that our friends and colleagues can test our technology, improve upon it, and take us closer to building robotic assistants that help to provide independence, dignity and joy to those with disabilities or age-related challenges.\u201d<\/p>\n

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