The rapid development of nanotechnology has been facilitating the transformations of
traditional food and agriculture sectors, particularly the invention of smart and active …

Advances in soft robotics, materials science, and stretchable electronics have enabled rapid
progress in soft grippers. Here, a critical overview of soft robotic grippers is presented …

Anthropomorphic robotic manipulators have high grasp mobility and task flexibility but
struggle to match the practical strength of parallel jaw grippers. Gecko-inspired adhesives …

Here we propose a concept of conductive dry adhesives (CDA) combining a gecko-inspired
hierarchical structure and an elastomeric carbon nanocomposite. To complement the poor …

Unlike traditional hard grippers, soft robotic grippers are commonly made of soft materials so
that the soft grippers can produce motion via elastic deformations of their compliant …

Grasping and manipulating uncooperative objects in space is an emerging challenge for
robotic systems. Many traditional robotic grasping techniques used on Earth are infeasible in …

For adhering to three-dimensional (3D) surfaces or objects, current adhesion systems are
limited by a fundamental trade-off between 3D surface conformability and high adhesion …

Adhesives are ubiquitous in daily life and industrial applications. They usually fall into one of
two classes: strong but irreversible (eg, superglues) or reversible/reusable but weak (eg …

Fluid-driven soft grippers possess conformable grasping characteristics that differ from their
rigid counterparts. Despite advances, their inherent low-stiffness due to constituent materials …

Gecko‐inspired microfibrillar adhesives have achieved great progress in microstructure
design and adhesion improvement over the past two decades. Space applications …