Toyota Research Institute Shares Design to Help Advance the Field of Soft Robotics
punyo.tech and build their own Punyo "The soft robotics community is small, and the visuotactile sensing community is even smaller," said Alex Alspach, TRI's Robotics Tactile Team Manager and the lead developer of the Punyo Soft Bubble Gripper. "By sharing the blueprints for this gripper with the world, we hope that our friends and colleagues can test our technology, improve upon it, and take us closer to building robotic assistants that help to provide independence, dignity and joy to those with disabilities or age-related challenges." Building on recently published work, the Punyo pro...