The robots' 'soft fingers' can grasp gently without the need for sensors

A little pressure is all it takes to know whether an avocado, peach or tomato is ripe. This is also what a soft robotic hand does, for example during automated harvesting. However, until now such a gripper needed sensors in its 'fingers' to determine whether the fruit was ripe enough. Shibo Zou and Bas Overvelde, AMOLF Group

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