Printing elastic grippers for soft robotics
A short look at how Latex Printing Technology shortens the design cycle of pneumatic grippers used in soft robotics.
Soft robotic grippers rely on geometries that injection moulding cannot reproduce without expensive multi-part tooling: internal channels, variable wall thickness, anisotropic bellows. With LPT, the same design goes from CAD to a testable elastic part in days.
What we are seeing in customer projects
- Channels under 0.5 mm printed cleanly and pressurized without delamination.
- Wall thickness gradients tuned to bias bending direction without changing material.
- Lattice-reinforced fingers that combine softness on the contact face with stiffness on the back.
Design loop, in practice
Most teams iterate on the gripper geometry weekly. A printed prototype on Monday, pressure tests on Wednesday, a revised CAD on Friday — no tooling changes, no idle waiting.
If you are working on a soft gripper and want to benchmark LPT against your current process, drop us a line at print@hevea3d.es.