"Soft" grasping using a dextrous hand

Industrial Robot

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 194-199

  Caldwell, D G ^a   Tsagarakis, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Grippers; Manipulators; Robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 0005284015     PISSN: 0143991X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/01439910010323941     Document Type: Article

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