Tentacles gripper. Soft pneumatic rubber tentacles that get all tangled around themselves and the object being gripped. Requires no sensors or complex algorithms.

You gotta love the way they hint at the end about the possible application to warehouses. Gripping objects is one of the few reasons there's still any humans in Amazon warehouses.

Tentacle robot can gently grasp fragile objects - Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

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