Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : June 05, 2019 - June 08, 2019
In recent years, industrial robots have been applied to food production because of its huge potential market. Although cooking large amount of foods are done by specially designed cooking machines, dishing up the cooked foods remains as a labor-intensive task. To solve this problem, we propose a new food handling robot hand composed by soft actuators which can handle easily damaged natural food and convey it at high speed. In this paper, characteristic of the soft actuator was shown and bending mechanism was analyzed by FEM. In addition, the proposed gripper was evaluated by conveying experiments with some food samples.
