ManipulationWithAstrictiveContact

farmHand and friends, from WilsonRuotolo

farmHand and egg

Primary Projects and Prototypes:

1. Gecko-inspired adhesive equipped tactile sensors
   • Publication
   • Video Link
2. Micro-spine technology enabled hands for robotic, human-scale rock climbing
   • Publication
   • Video Link
3. Hands with high mobility and soft contact for manipulation in cluttered spaces
   • Publication
   • Video Link
4. Gecko-inspired adhesive enabled hands that allow manipulation
   • Ruotolo, Brouwer and Cutkosky, "From grasping to manipulation with gecko-inspired adhesives on a multifinger gripper," Science Robotics 15 December 2021
   • Video Link
     • And some press: Stanford News, Popular Science, Yahoo, Tech Crunch...