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🐜 AntGrip -- Boosting Parallel Plate Gripper Performance Inspired by the Internal Hairs of Ant Mandibles
#robotics #mechanical #gripper

Neat bit of #robotics - 'spot' moving some tyers; the bits where it uses a foot or it's body to help are really interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM_ZHzp8nQA

An interesting overview of the current state of #Robotics
This doesn't' get into great detail but it is interesting to those without much knowledge of robotics, like me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eys5oQabMF8

First Look: Protoclone from Clone Robotics
#robotics #news

🐘 MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
#robotics #machines

MELEGROS: Monolithic Elephant-inspired Gripper with Optical Sensors
The elephant trunk exemplifies a natural gripper where structure, actuation, and sensing are seamlessly integrated. Inspired by the distal morphology of the African elephant trunk, we present MELEGROS, a Monolithic ELEphant-inspired GRipper with Optical Sensors, emphasizing sensing as an intrinsic, co-fabricated capability. Unlike multi-material or tendon-based approaches, MELEGROS directly integrates six optical waveguide sensors and five pneumatic chambers into a pneumatically actuated lattic…

🦾 Simplified wrist mechanism gives robots a hand
#robotics

Simplified wrist mechanism gives robots a hand
Give robots a specific job—say, placing a can on a conveyor belt in a factory—and they can be extremely efficient. But in less-structured environments with varied tasks, even seemingly simple things like unscrewing a light bulb or turning a door handle, things get a lot trickier.

Good Morning #Canada
Many people, that includes you, are worried about #Skynet assuming control of all military systems, but what happens when it starts harvesting our crops? Canadian agricultural scientists are blindly charging ahead in their efforts to fill our farms with robots. It started with self-driving tractors pulling conventional equipment and evolved to fully autonomous vehicles that plow, plant, fertilizer, weed, and harvest. Organic farming is seeing the biggest benefits as robots can hand weed 2 hectares per day, eliminating herbicides.... and farm workers. Almost 15% of Canada’s dairy farms use robotic milking cubicles where cows enter when they need milking, with no cold human hands involved. IMO, using robots to replace hard back breaking labour or tedious driving of equipment up and down a farm field is a good use of technology. But I hope the tech is not priced out of the reach of small farms.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Robotics #Farming
https://news.uoguelph.ca/2024/08/these-self-driving-weed-cutting-robots-transform-the-future-of-farming-says-u-of-g-researcher/