Host: The Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers
Name : [in Japanese]
Date : May 27, 2020 - May 30, 2020
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 and membranes which can handle easily damaged natural food and convey it at high speed. In this paper, we developed the soft robot hand with membranes (Mendako-hand) and evaluated the grasping and conveying performance with a food sample and some actual breads as targets.
