Pizza and Robot

The robots have many advantages, but when it comes to the manipulation of objects, they can sometimes all fingers and thumbs. Now, a team of Japanese engineers who are not can be a source of inspiration to the robots' dexterity: Pizza Lounge.

The robots have many advantages, but when it comes to the manipulation of objects, they can sometimes all fingers and thumbs. Now, a team of Japanese engineers who are not can be a source of inspiration to the robots' dexterity: Pizza Lounge.

"An Italian chef handles dextrously pizza in the oven with a tool called a pizza peel," said Makoto Kaneko, head of the team from Osaka University. A pizza peel is made up of a little more than a flat blade at the lower end of a long pole, but the boss to waive Pizza surprising degree. Kaneko team design a robot based on the pizza peel, with the robot, together with the control.

A pizza peel can be head with two degrees of freedom - and forth and twisting of the rod. However, in a combination of the two movements can be used, degree of freedom and play the horizontal pizza. Osaka, the team of robot "hands" has the same capacity, a robot for handling objects with precision. This study will be published in IEEE Transactions on Robotics.

Apart from the simple mechanical fingers, this approach has the advantage that none of the needs of electronic or mechanical manipulator itself. This should be done for robot manipulators that must be used with little space or difficult environments.