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Austin Allison

3 accepted papers

2026

SCANS: A Soft Gripper with Curvature and Spectroscopy Sensors for In-Hand Material Differentiation

ICRA 2026poster

We introduce the soft curvature and spectroscopy (SCANS) system: a versatile, electronics-free, fluidically actuated soft manipulator capable of assessing the spectral properties of objects either in hand or through pre-touch caging. This platform offers a wider spectral sensing capability than prev…

2025

SCANS: A Soft Gripper With Curvature and Spectroscopy Sensors for In-Hand Material Differentiation

RA-L 2025

We introduce the soft curvature and spectroscopy (SCANS) system: a versatile, electronics-free, fluidically actuated soft manipulator capable of assessing the spectral properties of objects either in hand or through pre-touch caging. This platform offers a wider spectral sensing capability than prev

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2024

HASHI: Highly Adaptable Seafood Handling Instrument for Manipulation in Industrial Settings

ICRA 2024poster

The seafood processing industry provides fertile ground for robotics to impact the future-of-work from multiple perspectives including productivity, worker safety, and quality of work life. The robotics research challenge in this domain is the realization of flexible and reliable manipulation of sof…

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