A Novel Soft Gripper Featuring a Self-Bending Contraction Actuator (SBCA) with Reconfigurable Bending Characteristics
Soft pneumatic actuators are widely used in robotic manipulation due to their compliance and adaptability; however, their performance is typically fixed at the fabrication stage, limiting their suitability for applications requiring task-specific tuning. This paper presents a reconfigurable self-bending contraction act...