ReviewSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021
Soft Grippers for Automatic Crop Harvesting: A Review.
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20 citing papers in PubMed.
- Postharvest Fruit Grading Technologies and Equipment: A Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Size Estimation of Grasped Objects Using a Soft Pneumatic Gripper Integrated with a Piezoresistive CNT/PDMS Sensor.Micromachines · 2026Article
- A Bio-Inspired Ring-Cutting and Compliant Clamping Mechanism for Selective Harvesting of Flexible-Stem Crops in Complex Terrain.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sensor fusion of touch & vision in soft manipulators for fruit picking.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Low-damage mechanised harvesting of shallots: from biomechanical interaction mechanisms to bionic and flexible design strategies.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- Toward Autonomous Self-Healing in Soft Robotics: A Review and Perspective for Future Research.Advanced intelligent systems (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025Review
- Slip detection for compliant robotic hands using inertial signals and deep learning.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Gripping Success Metric for Robotic Fruit Harvesting.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Soft Gripping Fingers Made of Multi-Stacked Dielectric Elastomer Actuators with Backbone Strategy.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Perceptual Soft End-Effectors for Future Unmanned Agriculture.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Sensors and Robotics for Digital Agriculture.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Grasping Performance Analysis and Comparison of Multi-Chamber Ring-Shaped Soft Grippers.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Mushroom Detection and Three Dimensional Pose Estimation from Multi-View Point Clouds.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Soft gripper for small fruits harvesting and pick and place operations.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2023Article
- Soft robotics towards sustainable development goals and climate actions.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2023Article
- The Intelligent Path Planning System of Agricultural Robot via Reinforcement Learning.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Bio-Inspired Robots and Structures toward Fostering the Modernization of Agriculture.Biomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Design, Fabrication and Analysis of Magnetorheological Soft Gripper.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Shape Sensing of Hyper-Redundant Robots Using an AHRS IMU Sensor Network.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Design and simulation of a gripper structure of cluster tomato based on manual picking behavior.Frontiers in plant science · 2022Article
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Abstract
Agriculture 4.0 is transforming farming livelihoods thanks to the development and adoption of technologies such as artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things and robotics, traditionally used in other productive sectors. Soft robotics and soft grippers in particular are promising approaches to lead to new solutions in this field due to the need to meet hygiene and manipulation requirements in unstructured environments and in operation with delicate products. This review aims to provide an in-depth look at soft end-effectors for agricultural applications, with a special emphasis on robotic harvesting. To that end, the current state of automatic picking tasks for several crops is analysed, identifying which of them lack automatic solutions, and which methods are commonly used based on the botanical characteristics of the fruits. The latest advances in the design and implementation of soft grippers are also presented and discussed, studying the properties of their materials, their manufacturing processes, the gripping technologies and the proposed control methods. Finally, the challenges that have to be overcome to boost its definitive implementation in the real world are highlighted. Therefore, this review intends to serve as a guide for those researchers working in the field of soft robotics for Agriculture 4.0, and more specifically, in the design of soft grippers for fruit harvesting robots.
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