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### Key Points and Conclusions 1. **Innovative Design**: The robot bicep is designed to lift 500 grams and repeat the task 5,000 times. It's an example of cost-effective, lightweight, and robust robotic technology. 2. **Materials**: The actuators are made from common rubber, costing just $3, excluding the motor. This makes it a very economical solution for various applications. 3. **Versatility**: Besides lifting weights, the bicep can crawl through pipes, making it useful for inspections and maintenance in hard-to-reach areas. 4. **Efficiency**: The robot demonstrates high endurance and efficiency, capable of performing repetitive tasks without significant wear and tear. ### Expert Opinion The development of such a robot bicep is a significant step forward in robotics, particularly for applications that require repetitive motions or operations in confined spaces. This technology can be transformative for maintenance, manufacturing, and inspection industries. ### Similar Examples 1. **Soft Robotic Grippers**: Designed for delicate tasks such as handling food items or fragile objects. [Source](https://lnkd.in/eEC8aeqY) 2. **Robotic Exoskeletons**: Used in manufacturing and healthcare to assist workers with heavy lifting. [Source](https://lnkd.in/eSYn-3Rj) ### Potential Application in Colombia For Colombia, integrating such robotic technology can vastly improve urban infrastructure management and industrial operations: - **Maintenance**: Use in sewer and pipeline inspections, reducing the need for manual checks and enhancing safety. - **Manufacturing**: Automating repetitive tasks, increasing productivity, and reducing operational costs. ### Recommendations 1. **Investment in Robotics**: Encourage local businesses to invest in robotic technologies for improved efficiency and safety. 2. **Training Programs**: Establish training programs to skill the workforce in operating and maintaining such technologies. 3. **Collaboration with Universities**: Partner with academic institutions for research and development of similar cost-effective robotic solutions. ### Ideas for Smart City Integration 1. **Automated Waste Collection**: Robots could handle waste collection, ensuring efficient and hygienic waste management. 2. **Public Infrastructure Monitoring**: Deploy robots to monitor and maintain public infrastructure, reducing downtime and improving safety. ### Conclusion Embracing robotic technologies like the robot bicep can significantly enhance operational efficiency and safety, supporting the vision of smart and sustainable cities. 💡🚀 #Innovation #SmartCity #Robotics #Efficiency #Sustainability #FutureTech https://lnkd.in/epNHH86F

Here is an example of how our 3D-printed SoPCAS gripper can interact with different environments (i.e., very soft to very rigid) using one real-time closed-loop feedback controller. Although soft grippers are inherently safe to interact with delicate environments, adding sensing elements to their structure allows them to extend such capability to interact with extremely soft environments. Full Manuscript | Open-Access | Robotics Reports | SoPCAS Finger: A Three-Dimensional Printed Soft Finger with Pneumatic Chambers for Simultaneous Actuation, Sensing, and Controlled Grasping https://lnkd.in/dTGyZK56 Omar Faris, Irfan Hussain Lebanese American University, Khalifa University, LAU School of Engineering #Research #SoftRobotics #Grippers #3DPrinting

I am thrilled to share that our paper "G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-On-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation with a Single Robotic Arm" has been accepted for publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters! 👏 In this paper, we introduce a novel gripper design, called G.O.G, specifically designed to facilitate bimanual cloth manipulation, including actions like folding and flattening, using only a single robot arm. Our gripper configuration comprises two distinct features: a Width Control Gripper (WCG) and two Variable Friction Grippers (VFG). The WCG functions as a large-scale gripper mechanism responsible for regulating the width of the two VFGs, with a range of up to 500mm. The two VFGs consist of a variable friction module that enables to actuate two grasping modes passively - firm and sliding grasps. While employing a dual-arm system would typically increase overall control complexity and cost, our gripper design allows for the implementation of complex bimanual manipulation by effectively controlling the pose and opening width of the gripper. For more in-depth information, please refer to our paper "G.O.G: A Versatile Gripper-On-Gripper Design for Bimanual Cloth Manipulation with a Single Robotic Arm" by Dongmyoung Lee, Wei C., Xiaoshuai Chen, and Nicolas Rojas. We will release the CAD files of G.O.G soon. Please feel free to approach me if you have any questions regarding this work! Paper (arXiv): https://lnkd.in/e2cRnCpr Paper (IEEE): https://lnkd.in/eVvPZ87y Video: https://lnkd.in/eXVwXWtH Webpage: https://lnkd.in/eT8xnr8d #IROS #IROS2024 #IEEE #RAL #Manipulation #Robotics

Today, we present some robust balancing results on TREC's humanoid robot, Pandora! In this video, we show robust balance control of the 12-DOF lower-body driven by series elastic actuators (SEAs). Pandora's novelty comes from the 3D printed structural components that contain significant unknown, nonlinear compliance which is accounted for in the low-level impedance controller at the actuator level (details and paper currently ongoing). At the planning and Whole-Body Control level, we utilize IHMC's Simulation Construction Set (SCS2) and Open Robotics Software (ORS) stack for control of humanoid robots. The joint dynamics are set to have low-damping to increase the stability requirements of the full control hierarchy. One of the improvements we still need to focus on is speed of z-height tracking, which is difficult to achieve without the weight of an upper body. However, as you can see by one of my reactions, the control hierarchy does a better job of balancing than I was expecting! Once again, this progress wouldn’t have been possible without the mechanical design, networking, electrical, and software infrastructures designed by members of our team including Alex Fuge, Benjamin Beiter, Zachary Fuge, Nicholas Tremaroli, Stephen Welch, Maxwell Stelmack, Madeline Kogelis, Christian Runyon, Ivan Fischman Ekman Simões, and Isaac Pressgrove in the Terrestrial Robotics and Engineering Controls (TREC) Lab at Virginia Tech Mechanical Engineering advised by Alexander Leonessa. Next, we are focused on walking. 🚶♂️ #humanoids #biped #treclab #virginiatech #controlsystems #controlengineering #control #mechanicalengineering #wholebodycontrol #balance #robotics #mechatronics

✨ The Tripteron is a motion platform created by Laval University's robotics lab as a simple parallel actuator robot that is capable of multiple configurations, all of which are linear. In the orthogonal configuration, the actuation is also Cartesian. 💡 This platform is covered by a patent, which was filed in 2002. 🤖 A fixed build platform is simple and allows for consistency and high performance ✅ Parallel actuation avoids compounding of mechanical errors, if any exist. ✅ Framing and assembly are easy ✅ Part count is low 🔎 Tripteron can be used to build a 3D printer, as an example. Credit : Oleksandr Stepanenko 🇺🇦 🎥 Witness this brilliant robotic mechanism by watching the video. #Tripteron #Robotics #Design #Mechanics #Actuation #Cartesian 👉 Follow me Levent Coskun to stay up to date on #robotics #AI #hightech and #innovation. To get notifications about my posts please activate the notification bell 🔔 in my profile

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Mobile robot - 3rd year engineer study project in team Development of an autonomous mobile robot capable of exiting through the door of a room without initial location and with a material constraint (ultrasonic sensor, two servo-motors, an arduino board). We developed the chassis on fusion360 then printed in 3d. An electrical board was made on the computer and manufactured to simplify the wiring, everything was then assembled with the chassis and hardware. The robot has an ultrasonic sensor at the front that allows us to detect obstacles and observe the environment in which it operates. The strength of our robot is that it performs a 360° scan to detect the door opening (which is open). The algorithm sequences and conditions its movements, guides the robot easily to the exit and stops after crossing it. #c #embeddedsystems #algorithms #arduino

Here's the First Run of my #3dprinted Linear #actuator . It runs really rough and coggy because I didn't lubricate any of the parts yet. The lead screw, bearing and gears all need to be lubricated for a smoother run. Here I'm using an arduino running a Servo Knob example code to cotrol the direction and speed of the actuator using a Potentiometer. Now apart from fact that it sounds like a Depressed Chainsaw, I think it's a good proof of concept and shows that it atleast does what it's supposed to know, except the "precision" part. Will definitely tweak a few dimensions of the #design to reduce the loading on each component as much as possible and make a new #prototype for this actuator 🚫 Also after this clip, bearing closure came loose and the screws weren't holding it in correctly so I tried to fix this using some CA glue (Superglue) and left it to dry. About 5 minutes later I came back to realise that the glue had somehow leaked into the bearing, and along the thread leadscrew, effectively jamming the bearing, lead screw and slider assembly. 🔨 I tried to free the bearing by holding the actuator firmly with a plier, and took a drill with a screwdriver bit to the head of the lead screw, hoping to forcefully spin the whole assembly which will free the parts. ❌ Bad News is that the glue had cured hard enough that the drill stripped the head of the screw and couldn't move the assembly, effectively making this whole actuator useless now; ✅ Good news is I have enough parts to make 4 more of these actuators so I'll now make another one and do the changes I mentioned above to the newer design and hopefully it will work better. Stay tuned for more updates on this small project and Let me know what you think in the comments! #tech #3d #3dprinting #robotics #aerospace #bharat

#MaterialsThisMidWeek! OK, I couldn't wait until Friday this week to post about some great research taking place at my undergrad alma mater #LehighUniversity....here is the URL to the College of Engineering's Resolve magazine with the articles: https://lnkd.in/ejbVBKvm One research item was innovation in 3D printing of concrete - depositing 2 materials separately, dry and binder essentially, to allow the printing of intricate structural shapes. A second item was getting magnetic sand to roll uphill - who knew you could have negative friction angles and negative coefficients of friction in soil mechanics...almost like imaginary numbers coming to the rather more "down to earth" practice of soils...

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