AirArm – An Anthropofunctional Robot Arm with Inherent Flexibility

Video:

AirArm, with a professional dancer, in smooth and dynamic motion  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CayFbmpuyIc

There will be time for interaction with the speaker at the end of the seminar. Light refreshment will be served.

Registration is complimentary but pre-registration is required.

Please register your attendance at the following link by 01 September 2016: https://goo.gl/forms/F8FybHy1mbbqMEaY2

For inquiry, please email: robotics@nus.edu.sg

Inspired by nature, AirArm is a function-driven robot capable of carrying out humanoid motions. Unlike other nature-inspired research that focuses on mimicking the mere structure and form of the human arm, AirArm is designed with the arm’s natural motion in mind. This industrial, pneumatic 4-axis kinematics with inherent flexibility has been researched, designed, developed, fabricated, and demonstrated by bachelor students of the scionic® I.D.E.A.L. curricula in Austria. The presentation will cover the main aspects of the methodology in designing AirArm, such as industrial design management, coupling materials and production technologies to create the purpose-driven nature-inspired robot.