The development of a scalable underactuated gripper based on flexural buckling

In this paper, we verify the scalability of an underactuated mechanism based on flexural buckling by applying the mechanism to multi-scale adaptive grippers. For verification, we design and fabricate two grippers having different sizes and install the grippers to a manipulator. As a result, the scalability of the mechanism will be shown by grasping from small electronic parts to large wine drinking glasses.