Curved origami offers a creative route to making robots and other mechanical devices
- Written by Hanqing Jiang, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University
These beautiful curves hold the key to a simple way to vary the stiffness of robotic grippers.njekaterina/DigitalVision via Getty ImagesThe Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Building robotic grippers that can firmly grasp heavy objects and also gently grasp delicate ones usually requires complicated sets of...
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