Fig. 5
From: Advances in biomimetic stimuli responsive soft grippers
(reproduced with permission [101]. Copyright 2016, Wiley–VCH)
Tethered soft grippers as smart actuators or manipulators. a Pneumatically driven tethered soft gripping robot that provides a range of complex motions by curling upwards or downwards controlled by expansion and contraction in elastomeric structures (reproduced with permission [15]. Copyright 2011, Wiley–VCH). b X-shaped ion-printed tethered electrical assistant soft gripper that presents rapid grasp a target in ethanol and releases it in water reversibly (reproduced with permission [99]. Copyright 2013, Springer Nature). c Optically and sonically camouflageable hydraulic hydrogel gripping robot that holds and releases a live goldfish noninvasively (reproduced with permission [100]. Adapted with permission under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial License 4.0 license. Copyright 2017, The Authors). d Stimuli responsive ion dip dyeing and transfer printed tough hydrogel-based soft gripper that can fold to grip a target in water and release it in ethanol reversibly