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SensiFlex Gripper

Professor/Researcher at LITecS

Covilhã, Portugal

About

SensiFlex is a self-sensing soft robotic gripper for delicate, flexible, and irregular products or components, reducing damage, failed picks, and downtime while enabling smarter and more adaptable industrial automation.

SensiFlex uses soft robotics, additive manufacturing, and embedded sensing to create a new generation of intelligent end-effectors for cobots and robotic arms. Its key differentiation lies in combining mechanical compliance and sensing intelligence in one compact solution, enabling smarter, more adaptable, and more robust industrial automation.

Stage

  • Incubation & Acceleration Programs
  • Technology Transfer & Spin-off Support

Applies to

  • Healthcare & Life Sciences
  • Energy & Climate
  • Industrial & Manufacturing
  • AgriFood & Bioeconomy
  • Blue Economy & Ocean Tech
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  • Defense & Security

Organisation

LITecS

University / Educational Institution

Covilhã, Portugal

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    SensiFlex Gripper

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    Pedro Dinis Gaspar

    Professor/Researcher at LITecS

    Covilhã, Portugal

  • Service

    Custom self-sensing soft gripping solutions

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    Martim Aguiar

    Invited Professor/Researcher at LITecS

    Covilhã, Portugal

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    Sweat Investment @ LOBA Venture Builder

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    Gaspar João

    ceo at LOBA

    Porto, Portugal