
Deformable kitchen sponge
Dishwashing
Squeeze a sponge and it comes back. Objects like this are solid all the way through, so we model them as volumes: a tetrahedral mesh inside the object, with the visible surface carried along by it. The finite element method then works out how the volume compresses, bulges and springs back.
Stiffness and damping are set from press tests on real samples of each material, so a soft foam and a dense one feel different in a gripper. Objects with a fabric skin, such as cushions, add a cloth layer over the foam body.

Dishwashing

Packing items into foam

Bed making

Dexterity benchmarks

Tidying a sofa

Sorting balls
Laying a mat on a tray

Rolling and unrolling

Bed making

Lab handling
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