October 8, 2025

Enabling Tunable Stiffness, Adhesive Grasping, and Interaction-Driven Reconfiguration: A Shape-Memory-Polymer-Enhanced Fin-Ray Gripper.

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The innovative soft gripper utilizes shape memory polymers to achieve tunable stiffness and adhesive grasping.
Experimental validation highlights the gripper's capacity to handle objects up to 50 times its weight, demonstrating effectiveness.
A combination of the Fin Ray Effect and intelligent materials allows for unique grasping modes and reconfigurable morphology.
The design promotes safe interaction with various objects in constrained spaces, enabling broader real-world applications.

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Experimental results show a soft gripper using shape memory polymers improves object handling, indicating versatile reconfiguration options.

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Experimental results show a soft gripper using shape memory polymers improves object handling, indicating versatile reconfiguration options.