A wire stripper is a hand-held device used to strip the electrical insulation electric wires. The existing wire strippers are complicated, costly and easy to wear. Considering that wire strippers change their degrees-of-freedom during their motion, a new stripper design based on a compliant 5-bar mechanism utilizing metamorphic transformation is presented for wire stripping. The pseudo-rigid-body method(RPBM) is applied to solve the kinetostatic behaviors of the mechanism in different working phases. The ob...