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The Resources

Plastic[PET] bottle

Cut the Plastic [PET] bottle

After Cut

Tape the edge of the bottle with insulating tape

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Double-sided adhesive tape

Install Double-sided adhesive tape to inner side of bottle

Insert the baloon into the plastic bottle[Before use, fill the balloon with air a few times so that it stretches.]

Turn over the baloon

Fill the balloon with the ground coffee.

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Cut the Cotton swab[plastic tube shaft type]

Insert the cotton swab into the plastic syringe [The swab is function as a filter to let the air pass but not the ground coffee]

Insert the plastic syringe into the plastic bottle

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Turn over the baloon to the plastic syringe

Tape the bottle and the syringe together using the insulating tape

Scooch the balloon

Double-sided adhesive tape

completed!!

Complex shape object[for example "clothes pin"]

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Press the universal gripper to the object[the balloon transforms(deformation)]

Vacuum the air [pull the plunger]->"Jamming Transition!!"

You can grip the object!!

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Part of this research is subsidized by the Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research.(Research Project Number: (B)16K18056:2016〜)