Replacing intensive labor with effortless grace
However, commercially viable automated goods-picking, scanning and customer’s order packaging remain unsolved challenges, as, due to the lack of appropriate sensing abilities, the currently available grippers are specialized for certain types of items and cannot be used for a wide variety of grocery items. This was the perfect opportunity for our robotic experts to disrupt the market once again.
In good hands
Automating warehouses around the world and enabling online retailers to significantly reduce their costs and speed up their processes is a great challenge. That’s why we teamed up with the best:
High Tech Engineering Center (HTEC) is a company with a strong background in designing and development of end-to-end AI-enabled IoT solutions for medical and home security purposes.
The Faculty of Technical Sciences (FTS) from Novi Sad is a home of a world-recognized robotic group which has all the human and infrastructural resources to support and supervise the design, manufacturing, and testing of prototypes..
The Faculty of Electronic Engineering (EF) from Niš offers its expertise in robot prototyping, embedded system design and control, with extended experience in mobile robotics and indoor localization.
The result – a brilliant robotic hand capable of grasping a large spectrum of items different in size, shape, and texture, mimicking human-level hand functionality.
Innovation at each
fingertip
The hand has two fingers with three degrees of freedom and the third finger is a thumb with four degrees of freedom and two different axes of rotation. This enables different types of grasps, adaptable to the shape of the object. While the whole hand, including the palm, is sensorized, the magic is in our 3-axis force sensor, designed and prototyped at the Faculty of Technical Sciences Novi Sad, which is integrated into each fingertip. The force sensor, coated with a silicon cover, ensures high friction in contact with the objects and local passive compliance to the object’s shape. Even the smallest deformation of silicon cover is sensed and used to estimate the contact force. This approach combines the adaptability and sensitivity similar to the human fingertip.
Just the perfect amount
of sensitivity
Smooth operator
By developing an intuitive robot control software with a user-friendly interface, our robotic experts will enable operators, even without any technical background, to easily take matters into their own hands by selecting one of the predefined types of grasp (power grasp, precision grasp, etc.) and defining the desired grasping force, based on the nature of the product.
Fast learner
By virtue of a state-of-the-art dual-mode control algorithm, the operators will easily guide the robot hand into the desired posture and around the object and teach it to grasp any unknown product of an arbitrary shape, size, and rigidness.
