Torque-Transmitting Architected Metamaterials for Flexible and Extendable Tubular Robotics (Jeffery Lipton and co-workers) 🔓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
That’s a wrap on the @Robotics_Summit ✨
Our final day was packed with highlights — from the Women in Robotics breakfast and the Healthcare Robotics Catalyst Showcase, to Form and Function Robotics Challenge winners announcement.
Huge congratulations to Northeastern University for taking 1st place in this year’s Form and Function Challenge!
2nd Place & Audience Choice Award: University of Waterloo
3rd Place: The University of British Columbia
Honorable Mention: Boston University🤖
Inspired by elephant trunks, scientists have developed a soft, flexible robotic arm that can twist to stiffen, enabling it to manipulate and install a lightbulb. @MITMechE@NortheasternCOE
Read more in Science #Robotics: scim.ag/4iyfFlQ
Happy to present our latest paper: Bridging hard and soft: Mechanical metamaterials enable rigid torque transmission in soft robots
science.org/doi/10.1126/scir…
Assembly-line robots are great, but usually at only one thing. A new tool from #UWAllen & @ME_at_UW would enable manufacturers to rapidly get a grip on changing production needs by 3D printing passive grippers customized for various objects. #SIGGRAPH2022washington.edu/news/2022/07/…
ALT GIF of robot arm affixed to table with 3D-printed gripper on the end with an elongated basket-like shape grips and lifts a 3D-printed shiny blue faceted rabbit figurine, then turns its arm to face the camera while maintaining the rabbit in its grasp
A UW team, including ME Assistant Professor Jeffrey Lipton & doctoral student Ian Good, created a new tool that can design a 3D-printable passive gripper & calculate the best path to pick up a variety of objects. Learn more: washington.edu/news/2022/07/…@uwcse@uwengineering
Assembly-line robots are great, but usually at only one thing. A new tool from #UWAllen & @ME_at_UW would enable manufacturers to rapidly get a grip on changing production needs by 3D printing passive grippers customized for various objects. #SIGGRAPH2022washington.edu/news/2022/07/…
ALT GIF of robot arm affixed to table with 3D-printed gripper on the end with an elongated basket-like shape grips and lifts a 3D-printed shiny blue faceted rabbit figurine, then turns its arm to face the camera while maintaining the rabbit in its grasp
Funding from @NASA will help a team including Carnegie Mellon's @zacinaction and @UW's Jeff Lipton continue their work to design and build foldable structures for space. cmu.is/folding-structures
ALT A graphic showing how foldable structures can work in space.