Ritsumeikan University: Gripper that grabs a cucumber:
Ritsumeikan University
Hokuren Agricultural Cooperative
Omi degree
Jointly developed a gripper for robots that packs cucumbers.
Between several cucumbers lined up
Insert the gripper,
The silicon film is inflated and gripped by air pressure.
In addition to cucumbers, we will propose it for boxing long and thin and irregular agricultural products.
Conventional problems:
The current packing robot system handles cucumbers by vacuum suction.
To suck the cucumber from the top
When you move the arm, it comes off,
There was a possibility of flying.
Improvements this time:
If you grasp from the left and right
Receives the force in the direction of movement of the arm,
You don’t have to drop it.
In addition to cucumber, we propose applications for arranging ingredients precisely.
New switch