A team at Tohoku University has developed a bag-type robot hand which can grasp soft and hard objects equally well. Previous bag-like robot hands were able to grasp objects of various shapes, but with sharp objects, they were damaged, broken, and there was a problem in durability. It is expected that this new design will dramatically increases the practical use of flexible robot hands at factories as well as at disaster sites.
JST news release, June 14, 2018
Tohoku University team develops a flexible, sensitive and highly durable type of robot hand