Soft grippers for cobot arm @ Food Tech Brainport, the Netherlands Components: Pneumatic demo model with two or more soft gripping fingers A soft gripper (of Soft Robotics), either fixed to a cobot arm or as a stand-alone is used to pick up various food produce. The fingers can be assembled from two up to…
ABB Flexpicker IRB 360 @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: IRB360 delta robot, hi-res vision system, conveyor, soft gripper, vacuum actuator This system demonstrates the possibility of high-speed and high-precision ingredients/products manipulation. It can be used for loading and unloading, packing, boxing operations.
STAUBLI HE robots (Humid environments) @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Wide range of HE robots, hi-res vision system, conveyor, vacuum actuator, laser scanners Staubli produces a wide range of robots for usage in humid environments, so they are for use in high-risk food production areas. Safety can also be demonstrated by means of laser scanners and a safety-certified control system…
Soft Robotics gripper prototyping system @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Rapid prototyping station to assemble and program soft grippers with multiple fingers configuration This system can be used to rapidly prototype soft grippers from both a mechanical and control point of view. Depending on the ingredient/product to be manipulated, the gripper can be assembled using a different number of fingers and…
ABB IRB 1200 with safe move @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Standard 6dof robotic arm, soft gripper, pneumatic gripper, vacuum/pneumatic actuators, 3D camera, laser scanner This robot will be mainly used to demonstrate high-speed operations on food ingredients/products like ingredients loading and presentation and/or final packing/boxing. The robot will use 3D vision systems to grasp and manipulate ingredients (bin picking) and to load/present them for the following operation. Other uses of…
Single arm Yumi IRB 14050-0.5/0.5 @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Collaborative single arm, vacuum gripper, servo actuated gripper, hi-res camera, first gripper vision The robot is currently used to demonstrate liquid/powder ingredients dosing. User can input the desired recipe and the robot selects the right containers and grasps them in the right sequence using 3D cameras and a rigid gripper. It then pours…
KUKA iiwa 14 – manipulation of ingredients @ University of Lincoln, UK Components: Wide range of HE robots, hi-res vision system, conveyor, vacuum actuator, laser scanners The KUKA iiwa is used to demonstrate human/robot collaboration in ingredients handling with a significant payload (up to 14Kg). It can be equipped with soft grippers, rigid grippers, vacuum or Bernoulli actuators. In terms of sensors, it can be…
Bosch APAS – component pattern recognition and gesture control @ ZeMA, Germany ZeMA supports Woll Sondermaschinenbau in the development of new competences in the field of Human-Robot-Cooperation (HRC). The Saarland-based company Woll Sondermaschinenbau manufactures and supplies special machines, assembly lines and production plants worldwide. Woll is a plant supplier offering tailor-made innovative solutions for industry…
Virtual Reality training @ Flanders Make, Belgium as the demand for customised items increases, operators need to be able to handle a diversity of tasks. Learning new assemblies can be difficult and slow down production. Virtual reality setups, based on actual CAD designs of the product, allow to practice the assembly even before the components…
Cobot assembly station @ Flanders Make, Belgium A human and a cobot (or collaborative robot) work together on the assembly of a small compressor. The operator takes care of the precision work, while the cobot handles the heavy and repetitive task. This demonstrator shows the advantages of digital work instructions, tailored to the experience level…
