{"id":684472,"date":"2025-08-11T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/simplified-wrist-mechanism-gives-robots-a-hand\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:30:24","slug":"simplified-wrist-mechanism-gives-robots-a-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/simplified-wrist-mechanism-gives-robots-a-hand\/","title":{"rendered":"Simplified wrist mechanism gives robots a hand"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Give robots a specific job\u2014say, placing a can on a conveyor belt in a factory\u2014and they can be extremely efficient. But in less-structured environments with varied tasks, even seemingly simple things like unscrewing a light bulb or turning a door handle, things get a lot trickier.<\/p>\n

A big part of the problem has to do with the “wrist” mechanisms robots have to work with; they’re often complicated and bulky and struggle with certain maneuvers. A much simpler app<\/a>roach taken by Yale researchers could give robots a way to handle more complicated movements. Their results are published<\/a> in Nature Machine Intelligence<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Typically, robots designed to manipulate objects are built with a gripper and a wrist with three degrees of freedom. That is, they can move in three independent ways: “roll” (rotating front to back), “pitch” (side to side) and “yaw” (vertically). But wrists are mechanically complex, and are often located far from the grasped object, requiring the robot to move its entire arm to complete the task. The result is awkward and inefficient movements that require a lot of space.<\/p>\n

This Yale-designed robotic hand, which the researchers have named the Sphinx, was developed in the lab of Prof. Aaron Dollar. It features a spherical mechanism that can both grasp and rotate a wide range of objects in all three axes, combining much of the function of traditional wrists and grippers.<\/p>\n

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