Soft End-Effectors

A sensorised robotic manipulator system is developed for
(i) agriculture, such as fruit and vegetable picking and sorting,
(ii) food packaging, such as but not limited to cakes, fruits, pies, etc.,
(iii) advanced manufacturing, such as handling glassware, electronic components, etc., and
(iv) service robots.

It provides safe, compliant and efficient grasping, leading to improved task-grasping performance for tasks previously deemed too delicate for traditional robotic end-effectors.