Sensing is believing: More Capable Robot Hands with the Soft Bubble Gripper

As part of its work to create a domestic robot, TRI is focusing on innovating the machine’s ‘helping hands.’ A domestic robot’s hands (also known as manipulators or grippers) must handle a wide variety of household objects to be useful. These manipulators must be capable of stable grasps, precise placement and safe interactions during inadvertent contact. To be affordable as part of a household robot, the gripper must also be low cost. TRI engineers have designed a manipulator with all these capabilities ca