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Jamming Grippers Combine to Form Robotic Elephant Trunk
- lupatus 14y agoReminds me of the squid robots from the third Matrix movie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pV8AaXr7E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0pV8AaXr7E I wonder how well a robot with these appendages would do at asteroid mining? Also, it is now possible to make a robotic Cthuhlu.
- shabble 14y agoThis is a really neat idea, it's kind of like a randomised 3D Hirth Joint[1] which means you can lock the joint into a far stronger piece than it'd be able to maintain by actuator strength alone. It also reminds me a lot of the electro/magnetorheological[2] fluid hydraulics (where magnetic particles are suspended in a hydraulic system, and the viscosity & damping of the system can be altered electronically). Actually, just looking at the WP article quotes an article[3] using it for clutches. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirth_joint https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hirth_joint [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrorheological_fluid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrorheological_fluid [3] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957415896000372 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0957415896...