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ArticleScientific reports2024

A soft cable loop based gripper for robotic automation of chemistry.

Lupo Manes, Sebastiano Fichera, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrew I Cooper, Paolo Paoletti

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Article in Scientific reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lupo ManesLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Discovery, Material Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK. L.Manes@liverpool.ac.uk.
Sebastiano FicheraSchool of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GH, UK.
Hatem FakhruldeenLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Discovery, Material Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
Andrew I CooperLeverhulme Research Centre for Functional Materials Discovery, Material Innovation Factory, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 7ZD, UK.
Paolo PaolettiSchool of Engineering, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, L69 3GH, UK.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Robotic automation is proving itself indispensable in the modern Chemistry laboratory, but adoption is slowed down by the technical challenges of implementing such systems. This paper reports on a novel adaptive gripper mechanism that can easily and reliably grasp cylindrical and prismatic objects of various sizes with limited clearance required. The proposed design exploits the inherent compliance of a cable that is driven to fully envelope the target object. The cable is run through a rigid finger, allowing the loop to be placed around objects with minimal clearance required and to provide support for the object once the grip is complete. Thanks to the compliant nature of the mechanism, the gripper requires minimal control effort to complete a gasping task. A prototype of the gripper has been designed and built for chemistry automation tasks, where it showed very high grasp reliability with

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PMCPMC11024125

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