Research at the Fraunhofer IWSThe 3D printing robot hand learns to feel
To make harvesting robots or submarine grippers more universally applicable and autonomous in the future, researchers at the Fraunhofer IWS are teaching them to feel: They are working on artificial grippers modeled on nature. The combination of 3D and dispensing printing with other technologies is helping here.
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In future, robotic grippers with haptic capabilities will be able to grip and sort apples and other fruit more gently. The gripper developed in the BioGrip project adapts to the shape of the apple. © Fraunhofer IWS