OmniGrasp

A soft robotic gripper for the automation of pick-and-place of fragile and deformable objects and objects with irregular shapes. Thanks to a unique combination of soft materials, artificial muscles and electroadhesion, our gripper can delicately conform to nearly any-shaped object and provide large electroadhesion force to lift it up. This unique grasping method is a game changer because it is intrinsically safe for the object so it does not require force sensors and complex feedback loops. It leaves no marks on the object's surface so it can be used with finite pieces. It is also compact, silent, clean and very low-power. https://www.epfl.ch/labs/lmts/lmts-research/dea/electroadhesion/