What is it about?
Snakes are known to be flexible when needed, yet they can grip onto their prey by tieing themselves like a noose around them with so much strength that the prey is dead even before the snake consumes it. This combination of strength & flexibility is what inspired this paper. This work discusses designing robotic arm-gripper with wire-driven grippers that are very similar to the snake in looks and operations.
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Why is it important?
Flexible Robotic grippers are very often very complex to design/build/operate, resulting in designers having to compromise on either flexibility or complexity. This work shows that there is an alternative.
Perspectives
Research Series: Robotics - Hardware Design [2007 - 2013] Coming from a Mechanical Engineering background (see below), I focused on the mechanical design of robots and robot components. Specifically on Humanoid Robot Grippers. Their paradoxid design requirements fascinated me; to be complex enough to perform human-like movements yet compact enough to fit at the ends of the robots' arms.
Sami Salama Hussen Hajjaj
Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University
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This page is a summary of: Design and development an insect-inspired humanoid gripper that is structurally sound, yet very flexible, IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science, June 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing,
DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/16/1/012081.
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