Underactuated Manipulation

Harvard Biorobotics Laboratory

Dollar, Aaron M., and Robert D. Howe. “The highly adaptive SDM hand: Design and performance evaluation.” The international journal of robotics research 29.5 (2010): 585-597.

Yale Grablab

Supporting video for the ICRA paper: Lael U. Odhner, Raymond R. Ma, and Aaron M. Dollar, “Precision grasping and manipulation of small objects from flat surfaces using underactuated fingers,” 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.2830-2835, 14-18 May 2012.

Supporting video for the IROS paper: Berk Calli, Aaron Dollar, “Vision-based precision manipulation with underactuated hands: Simple and effective solutions for dexterity”, International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016.

Robotics Institute Manipulation Lab (Carnegie Mellon University)

Regrasping Objects Using Extrinsic Dexterity

MIT Manipulation and Mechanisms Lab

Stable Prehensile Pushing: In-Hand Manipulation with Alternating Sticking Contacts. arXiv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1710.11097

Hirose Soft Gripper

Video by Hirose, but posted to YouTube by Tory Woo. Probably related to [29], “The Development of Soft Gripper for the Versatile Robot Hand”, Shigeo Hirose and Yoji Umetani.