The present invention discloses a pneumatic
variable stiffness soft gripper, comprising a gripper and a flexible
wrist. The gripper has a plurality of
variable stiffness fingers, each
variable stiffness finger comprising a strain limiting plate, a driving
airbag fixed on the outside of the strain limiting plate, and a variable stiffness
airbag fixed on the inside. The variable stiffness
airbag has a
honeycomb-shaped support grid inside, which divides the inner cavity of the variable stiffness airbag into a plurality of cells, and the plurality of cells are connected to a second
airway. Each
cell is filled with spherical blocking particles. During the grasping process of the soft gripper, the driving airbag is first pressurized by the first
airway, the variable stiffness finger is bent, and then negative pressure is applied to the variable stiffness airbag through the second
airway, so that the blocking particles are arranged closely, the friction between the particles is increased, and adaptive variable stiffness is achieved. The flexible
wrist comprises a
bellows, and three third airways are evenly distributed along the circumference of the
bellows, so that the flexible
wrist can produce good deflection and elongation properties.