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“#New ‘robotic snake’ device grips, picks up objects<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n Nature\u2014including an elephant’s trunk\u2014inspired the creation of a new soft fabric robotic gripper by a team of UNSW Engineering researchers, led by Dr. Thanh Nho Do, Scientia Lecturer and UNSW Medical Robotics Lab director. Credit: Shutterstock
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An invention similar to an elephant’s trunk has potential benefits for many industries where handling delicate objects is essential, say the UNSW researchers who developed it.<\/p>\n

Nature has inspired engineers at UNSW Sydney to develop a soft fabric robotic gripper which behaves like an elephant’s trunk to grasp, pick up and release objects without breaking them.<\/p>\n

The researchers say the versatile technology<\/a> could be widely app<\/a>lied in sectors where fragile objects are handled, such as agriculture, food and the scientific and resource exploration industries\u2014even for human rescue operations or personal assistive devices.<\/p>\n

Dr. Thanh Nho Do, Scientia Lecturer and UNSW Medical Robotics Lab director, said the gripper could be commercially available in the next 12 to 16 months, if his team secured an industry partner.<\/p>\n

He is the senior author of a study featuring the invention, published in Advanced Materials Technologies<\/i> this month.<\/p>\n

Dr. Do worked with the study’s lead author and Ph.D. candidate Trung Thien Hoang, Phuoc Thien Phan, Mai Thanh Thai and his collaborator Scientia Professor Nigel Lovell, Head of the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering.<\/p>\n

“Our new soft fabric gripper is thin, flat, lightweight and can grip and retrieve various objects\u2014even from confined hollow spaces\u2014for example, a pen inside a tube,” Dr. Do said.<\/p>\n

“This device also has an enhanced real-time force sensor which is 15 times more sensitive than conventional designs and detects the grip strength required to prevent damage to objects it’s handling. There is also a thermally-activated mechanism that can change the gripper body from flexible to stiff and vice versa, enabling it to grasp and hold objects of various shapes and weights\u2014up to 220 times heavier than the gripper’s mass.”<\/p>\n


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