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March 25, 2026Nature CommunicationsOpen Access

Sensor fusion of touch & vision in soft manipulators for fruit picking

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AMAnand Kumar MishraARAravind RamaswamiVSVikram Shree

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Overview

Demonstrates a soft robotic gripper's ability to harvest fruit non-destructively using integrated multimodal sensing in agriculture, suggesting improved harvesting efficiency.

Key Points

  • To develop a soft robotic gripper that uses integrated sensory modalities for non-destructive fruit harvesting.
  • Developed a five-finger soft robotic gripper with 13 integrated sensors.
  • Utilized vision, tactile, and curvature sensing for adaptive fruit manipulation.
  • Conducted real-time demonstrations in a greenhouse setting for strawberry harvesting.
  • Achieved 100% shape classification accuracy with real-time color detection.
  • Measured fruit size with below 1.8% error.
  • Demonstrated ability to distinguish soft from firm fruits using tactile sensors.

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Mishra et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69c37b41b34aaaeb1a67d75fhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-026-70588-9
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