Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Bilateral Contracts with Industry

TDR group is a robotics integrator specialized on optimizing production chains, usually multiplexing robots to perform several activities. Hence, their interest in graspers and the time invested in this activity has been growing within the last years. To improve this aspect, we have been developing together a concept of “universal grasper”, based on soft robotics technology and capable of grasping an object with an arbitrary shape, and partially misplaced or misoriented. The prototype developed complies with the specifications and allows for scalability, with flexibility between grasping force and shape tolerance, and the ability for replacing objects without the need of an external vision system. Relying in SOFA for physical simulation, we have validated a prototype, and realize it. An industrial version of the prototype has been realized this year. It will be commercialized next year.