Monolithic soft robotic grippers 3D-printed in 60A and 70A TPU, among the most flexible commercially available filaments, with no silicone casting. Tensile tests supplied the hyperelastic material data needed for accurate finite-element simulation. The work was published in IEEE Access (2025).
Publications
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Spatial Stiffness Tuning in Monolithic FDM-Printed TPU Enhances Locomotion in Soft Crawling Robots Journal
K. Meitani, S. Nisar
IEEE Access
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Materials and Methods for Designing 3D-Printed Soft Robot Grippers in Low-Hardness TPU (60A–70A) Journal
K. Meitani, S. Nisar
IEEE Access, vol. 13, pp. 210465–210473
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K. Meitani, S. Nisar
30th Int. Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB) 2025
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K. Meitani, G. G. Nanayakkara, R. M. Suarez Flores, S. Nisar
30th Int. Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics (AROB) 2025
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Design and Fabrication of 3D-Printable High-Fidelity Monolithic Soft Robotic Grippers with Highly-Flexible Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) Thesis
K. Meitani
Bachelor's thesis (Lab Project), Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Kyoto, Japan · Advisor: S. Nisar
