End-of-arm tooling that combines vacuum and mechanical gripping comes as close as possible to the one tool that does it all and reduces the number of tool changeovers to a few or zero. The optimum ...

For fluid-compressed equipment, this means air and pneumatic actuators compress more, so attributes like load displacement ...

In this article, we introduce a novel soft extending pneumatic actuator, which combines a compliant scissor structure inspired by human cartilage and soft pneumatic muscles. The structure behaves as a ...