Hollywood movies have used giant squids and octopi to inspire underwater nightmare for decades . But Festo , a German company that ready industrial machinery , has realized that an devilfish ’ amazing muscle - packed body and tentacles could actually bethe idealistic room to plan and build a robotdestined to process alongside human race .
Robotic weapons system have already joined man on assembly lines and in factories , but they often model a safety risk . An inadvertent swipe by an limb made of steel as it whips around to catch a part can result in wicked injuries and even demise .
But Festo ’s new OctopusGripper is work up around a indulgent silicone body structure that works not unlike a balloon . The pneumatic system pumps compressed air in and out of the tentacle , flex inward to roll around an physical object . Two rows of sucking cups , including several power by a vacuum , then allow the robot tentacle to securely grip and hold onto even on an irregular basis - shaped objects .
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You would definitely still feel the impact if this pneumatic tentacle demote into you while it was propel around , but since it ’s design to be flexible and pliable , most of the hit should be absorb , resulting in little to no injuries for a human Colorado - doer . The added safety also means pneumatic robots would n’t have to be locked away in giant safety John Milton Cage Jr. , which take up a set of valuable space on manufactory flooring .
to boot , Festo believes its OctopusGripper would be more universally subject than the standard pair of fascinate claw that many robots utilize to grab target . Its power to wrap up around portion , large or modest , plus the added grip of the sucking loving cup , means it could go from one task to another in a factory setting with few modifications or climb needed in - between .
A robot devilfish is still a good source of incubus fuel , particularly when we ’re staring down a future tense where robots are becoming more capable , and more intelligent . But you could take solace in the fact that , unlike a Terminator , this inflatable tentacle can be defeated with nothing more than a chapeau pin .
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