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Electroadhesion could be used to hold objects on belts. Here on earth electroadhesive conveyors are sold as a way to move objects up steeper angles[0] [0]https
by gene-h 3y ago
Electroadhesion could be used to hold objects on belts. Here on earth electroadhesive conveyors are sold as a way to move objects up steeper angles[0]
[0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJu9hzZA-p0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJu9hzZA-p0
- m463 3y agoAlso to hold the paper down on the HP plotters of old.
- falcor84 3y agoThanks for sharing, that looks really cool! Do you happen to know if that company is still in operation, or if some other company took over their tech? Neither their official site[0], twitter account[1] nor crunchbase[2] have any updates about them since 2018. Oh, just found a press release about some restructuring they went into just before covid hit[3]; I suppose they didn't survive that. Still interesting to see if some other company picked it up. [0] https://grabitinc.com/company/ https://grabitinc.com/company/ [1] https://twitter.com/Grabit_Inc https://twitter.com/Grabit_Inc [2] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grabit https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/grabit [3] https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grabit-inc-enters-into-restructuring-support-agreement-300977328.html https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/grabit-inc-enters-i...