PICK-PLACE focuses on flexible, safe and dependable robotic part-handling in industrial environments. The project proposes a combination of human and robot capabilities in order to achieve this efficient hybrid pick-and-place / pick-and-package solution. It includes dynamic package configuration, flexible grasping strategies using an innovative multifunctional gripper, robust environment perception and mechanisms and strategies for human-robot collaboration.

Learn more about PICK-PLACE

−

Yale’s Robot Hand Copies How Your Fingers Work to Improve Object Manipulation

Source: IEEE Spectrum / by Evan Ackerman

These robotic fingers can turn friction on and off to make it easier

Source: IEEE Spectrum / by Evan Ackerman
Dex-Net 4.0 enables “ambidextrous” robots to choose the best gripper