Rice Grain and Business Card Picking Robotic Hand Gripper
Need a Hand? This Robotic Hand Can Help You Pick Your Food items and Plate Your Dish
Tags: Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore, Electronics & Robotics, Agriculture & Food
The SUTD-developed RWS (reconfigurable workspace soft) robotic gripper can adaptively handle items from grains to large objects, revolutionizing logistics and food industries by enhancing automated picking and packing processes. Its unique design allows for the safe and reliable grasping of a wide variety of geometries, improving efficiency in handling diverse consumer goods. The RWS gripper can reliably scoop rice or couscous with radii as small as 1.5 millimeters or pick items as thin as 300 microns such as business cards or thin instruction manuals from flat surfaces. It can also grasp large convex, nonconvex, and deformable items such as melons, cereal boxes, or detergent refill bags which can weigh as much as 1.4kg. This innovative gripper can reconfigure its workspace, significantly broadening its utility across multiple tasks without the need for different grippers. It promises to meet the dynamic demands of various industries, showcasing a leap in soft robotic technology.
IP Type or Form Factor: Platform; Material; Device; Design
TRL: 6 - prototype validated in intended environment
Industry or Tech Area: Robotics; Food & Beverage
