Скачать или смотреть The Underrated Robot Capability: Adaptive End-Effectors

Robots have a problem. They do not have hands like us humans. We humans can very intuitively pick and place items of various shapes and sizes by orienting our hands appropriately. Without human like hands, robots can’t do that. One approach to solving this problem is that instead of giving robots one dexterous hand that can do multiple things, we can give them multiple hands and the ability to switch between them so that they can use the right hand for the right job.

I built a 3d-printed 6-axis robot that can automatically switch out its end-effector (or tool) depending on the item it is trying to pick up. For a box with a flat surface, it can use a suction cup. For an item without flat surfaces like a screw driver, it can drop off the suction cup and use a gripper. It uses ROS and MoveIt for control and inverse kinematics. I took this robot to the Bay Area Maker Faire to show it to other Robotics enthusiasts. This is the story of that journey, the successes, the failures and the learnings.

In my next video, I am planning to add some form of computer vision and object detection to this robot so that it knows what type of object it is picking up and then automatically chooses the right end-effector.
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