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    A Soft Robotics Approach to Autonomous Warehouse Picking

    Nowadays, an increasing research effort is devoted to picking automation. Toward this goal the main challenge is the flexibility: a single robot should be able to pick objects with various shape, size, and phy...

    Tommaso Pardi, Mattia Poggiani, Emanuele Luberto in Advances on Robotic Item Picking (2020)

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    Advanced Gras** with the Pisa/IIT SoftHand

    This chapter presents the hardware, software and overall strategy used by the team UNIPI-IIT-QB to participate to the Robotic Gras** and Manipulation Competition. It relies on the PISA/IIT SoftHand, which is...

    Manuel Bonilla, Cosimo Della Santina, Alessio Rocchi in Robotic Gras** and Manipulation (2018)

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    From Soft to Adaptive Synergies: The Pisa/IIT SoftHand

    Taking inspiration from the neuroscientific findings on hand synergies discussed in the first part of the book, in this chapter we present the Pisa/IIT SoftHand, a novel robot hand prototype. The design moves ...

    Manuel G. Catalano, Giorgio Grioli, Edoardo Farnioli in Human and Robot Hands (2016)