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In an earlier study, we developed a soft fingertip, referred to as a fluid fingertip, which was fabricated from a deformable rubber bag filled with incompressible fluid. The proposed strategy detects the preferable grasping point where fracturing of the target object is avoided while the applied force or pressure from the fluid fingertip is substantially transmitted to the target. In this grasping point, the behavior of the fluid pressure changes with respect to the pushing distance when pushing at a constant speed. The other features of the strategy determining the grasping point are as follows: (1) the threshold for the detection of the grasping point is fixed or constant with respect to the type of target object; (2) information regarding the deformation and stiffness of the fingertips and target object is not required. The detection of the grasping point through behavioral changes in the pressure is performed by comparing the fitting accuracies of fitting models utilizing information of the fluid pressure and pushing distance. 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