{"id":378182,"date":"2021-12-08T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/a-soft-jig-that-could-enhance-the-performance-of-general-purpose-assembly-robots\/"},"modified":"2021-12-08T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T15:00:01","slug":"a-soft-jig-that-could-enhance-the-performance-of-general-purpose-assembly-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-soft-jig-that-could-enhance-the-performance-of-general-purpose-assembly-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"#A soft jig that could enhance the performance of general-purpose assembly robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#A soft jig that could enhance the performance of general<\/a>-purpose assembly robots<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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As robots become increasingly advanced, they are being trained to complete a wide variety of tasks. Some roboticists have been specifically exploring the potential of robotic systems that can assembly items without much human supervision, as this could significantly speed up industrial and production processes.<\/p>\n

Researchers at Nara Institute of Science<\/a> and Technology<\/a> (NAIST) have recently created a soft jig that could be used to improve the performance of general-purpose assembly robots. This jig, introduced in a paper presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics in and Automation (ICRA)<\/a>, is based on the universal jamming gripper, a system created by roboticists at the University of Chicago Cornell University and iRobot.<\/p>\n

“Our soft jig is inspired by a soft robotic gripper called jamming gripper<\/a> that has been getting a lot of attention from robotics researchers,” Takuya Kiyokawa, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told TechXplore. “The main objective of our study was to improve the flexibility of fixtures for the assembly parts handled by the gripper.”<\/p>\n

Ultimately, Kiyokawa and his colleagues would like to develop a generic robotic assembly system that could speed up low-volume production processes. The soft jig they created could be a first step in this direction, as they found that it could improve the previously developed robotic gripper’s ability to assemble different items.<\/p>\n

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