Robots & Design

Design plays a fundamental role in engineering and how well its solutions can be implemented in the real world. Pablo Valdivia y Alvarado Ph.D.

  • Soft grippers
  • Soft grippers
  • Soft grippers
  • Soft grippers

Soft grippers

4 DOF gripper with compliant fingers. The material distribution in flexible fingers enables different grasp poses (e.g. pinch, cup, etc) when actuated via a central cable. Objects with different stiffnesses and shapes can be securely held.

MOVIES:
Grabbing a thick object
Grabbing a thin flexible object

I design simple and elegant mechanisms that exploit natural phenomena to achieve their function by drawing inspiration from nature and a deep understanding of the physics of a problem.