Soft Robotic Grippers for Variable Produce Handling: Field Study of Damage and Cycle Life

Authors

  • Adalbert Auerswald Centre for Robotics, Wesermarsch Centre for Emerging Materials, Brake, Germany Author
  • Gunvor Eldegard Department of Control Engineering, Nordmore Centre for Emerging Materials, Kristiansund, Norway Author
  • Frederikke Jespersgaard Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Sydvestjylland Institute of Advanced Technology, Esbjerg, Denmark Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22673016

Keywords:

Soft Robotic Grippers for Variable Produce Handling; Next-generation R&D; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Soft Robotic Grippers for Variable Produce Handling has moved quickly from a niche engineering question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for soft robotic grippers for variable produce handling, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where engineers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here
than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance.

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