Scooping-Binding Hand Heads: Zhongkui Wang Contact: Haruki Furuta Date: 2020 - Mailing address: Dept. Robotics, Ritsumeikan Univ. Kusatsu, Shiga 525-8577, Japan Supported by: Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP) "An intelligent knowledge processing infrastructure, integrating physical and virtual domains" Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovation Areas (Science of Soft Robots) JP21H00333 Mechanics of Wet Contact with Applications to Sticky/Slippery Object Manipulation Associated lab/group: Furukawa Lab. (Yamagata Univ.)

Project Description

A scooping-binding hand is proposed to grasp slippery and fragile food materials. This hand is capable of grasping food materials by scooping the materials by thin elastic plates attached to the fingers and binding them by parallel elastic threads.

Personnel

	Name	Title	Degree
	Uchitani Atsumu	M2
	Furuta Haruki	Graduated	Master of Eng.

Publications

• Zhongkui Wang, Haruki Furuta, Shinichi Hirai, and Sadao Kawamura, A Scooping-Binding Robotic Gripper for Handling Various Food Products, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 10.3389/frobt.2021.640805, Feb., 2021

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