Check out how MIT engineers have now developed a gripper that grasps by reflex in this video by TechCrunch!
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Common approach in other manipulation Systems is to use vision and use camera And all the details down to specific Fingertip locations on an object You have a camera basically take an Image of the scene and say Here's the Closest object that you can grasp and For the camera that's it we've put Proximity sensors and contact sensors in The fingers so as it approaches the Object it can see the surfaces that it's Coming up against and react around them And then when it knows that something's In its grasp it can close and measure The forces that it sees so that it knows Whether or not it successfully grasp the Object
