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Soft Robotic Aerial Manipulation: Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Gripper System

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This lecture presents the development process of a Flying Hydraulically Amplified Electrostatic Gripper System for Aerial Object Manipulation, focusing on the motivation, challenges, and key aspects such as actuator selection, toe configuration optimization, and untethered high voltage power supply. The final result showcases a proof of concept using HASEL actuators on untethered aerial robots, demonstrating the potential for soft robotic manipulation in aerial environments.

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Soft robotics is a subfield of robotics that concerns the design, control, and fabrication of robots composed of compliant materials, instead of rigid links. In contrast to rigid-bodied robots built from metals, ceramics and hard plastics, the compliance of soft robots can improve their safety when working in close contact with humans. The goal of soft robotics is the design and construction of robots with physically flexible bodies and electronics. Sometimes softness is limited to part of the machine.

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Humanoid robot

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