Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
A soft robot hand made of flexible materials is one of the most promising research subjects since it can grasp an object safely and gently. In order for the robot hands to grasp objects with various shapes, it is necessary to achieve various grasping postures. A previous research reports the grasping postures can be classified into 33 types. Some of them are known to involve finger flexion and adduction, suggesting that the fingers should have flexion and adduction for dexterous grasping. In conventional robot hands, flexion and adduction of fingers have been realized by arranging a DC motor with reduction gear at each joint. However, in the next generation soft robot hand, a completely new mechanism is required to make the finger flexion and adduction possible. For this reason, we developed a dexterous soft robot hand that can realize various grasping postures with flexion and adduction motions.
