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Inspired by the biological structure of the sea urchin mouth, which combines external rigid teeth with an internal soft membrane, the proposed grippers employ origami architectures to achieve coordinated two-stage grasping. Novel waterbomb and Miura-ori origami architectures were introduced, enabling the formation of external and internal teeth. The developed grippers integrate an elastomeric membrane with an internal origami structure that enables contraction-driven folding under negative-pressure actuation. Multiple gripper configurations with varying dimensions are fabricated using paper and polymer-laminated paper skeletons. An energy-based modeling framework is introduced to describe the pressure\u2013force relationship while accounting for the effects of structural deformation. Experimental evaluations conducted at different negative-pressure values quantified grasping performance and holding force. Imprint-based analysis confirmed the two-stage grasping mechanism, while grasping capability investigations demonstrated compliant interaction with delicate objects. Holding forces were measured using cylindrical metal and spherical wooden test objects of varying sizes and orientations. The waterbomb-based gripper achieved the most consistent performance, particularly for cylindrical objects, reaching a maximum holding force of 70 N, whereas the Miura-ori provided improved adaptability and higher holding forces for spherical objects, reaching 74.8 N, and maximum force-to-weight ratios of 327.2 and 346.6 were achieved for the waterbomb- and Miura-ori-based grippers, respectively.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/biomimetics11070466","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,3]],"date-time":"2026-07-03T07:59:47Z","timestamp":1783065587000},"page":"466","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Biomimetic Origami-Based Soft Robotic Grippers with Two-Stage Grasping"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0006-1537-6045","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana","family":"Botri\u0107","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-7662-5793","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Goran","family":"Gregov","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"University of Rijeka, Faculty of Engineering, Vukovarska 58, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,3]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","unstructured":"Kasahara, K. 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