Festo Working On Robot Tentacle Arm, Just Needs Neural Interface To Create Supervillain
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 13 of April , 2010 at 3:11 am
I don’t read German, but it looks like this concept from Festo for a robotic tentacle arm is fairly straightforward and well in line with the sorts of things that they’ve got experience with. The tentacle arm is actuated using air power instead of servos; by using air pressure to expand chambers in the arm it can be made to move in any direction. It looks like the hand is a little more complicated, relying on the addition of a few piston driven actuators for finer control. There’s not much more information on this design yet, but I’m crossing my tentacles that we’ll see a real prototype sometime soon.
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Comment by msh
Made Tuesday, 13 of April , 2010 at 4:44 am
What looks like pistons on the hand are actually sensors. “positionsmessung durch sensoren” = “position-measuring through sensors”
Comment by Marco
Made Tuesday, 13 of April , 2010 at 5:05 am
Let me translate the Sentences for you :D
Its of course in the order of appearance :)
But i give no guarantee of correctness ;)
Kinematics inspired by an elephant’s trunk
Three Segments
Handaxis
Claw, Clutch, Grabber (Something like that)
Airchambers allow extension…
… and an angular motion
Measuring of extension
Handaxis positions Grab
Measuring the position with the help of sensors
Movement of the Grabfingers
form- and force-fit grip
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