Design Summary Draft 2
The article “This Soft Robotic Gripper Can Screw in Your Light
Bulbs for You” (2017) introduces a
revolutionary robotic arm and its features. Designed and built by the
engineering team from the university, is a robotic gripper capable, but not
limited to controlling the object it is handling. According to Michael T.
Trolley, it is designed to emulate a biological hand. One of the main features was
the ability to manipulate and model objects. Consisting of three fingers, each
has a total of “three soft flexible pneumatic chambers”, making manipulation
possible. The article also states that each finger is covered with a “smart,
sensing skin” embedded with “conducting nanotube” sensors, which reacts to the
change of conductivity caused by flexing of fingers, effectively generating
data of the object it holds. The data generated is then passed to a control
board where the 3D modelling of the object is done through the combination of
2D image slices.
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