Robots aren’t meant to be built from just hard parts. For this ketchup A robotic system inspired by the bottle prepared.
Eindhoven University of Technology researchers, soft parts (For example fingers) and develops different systems for it. The newest of these is directly as we said above. ketchup inspired by the bottle. There are movable valves in the cap parts of ketchup bottles. Thanks to these valves, the stored ketchup goes out of the bottle with the help of air, and when the bottle is squeezed hard, instantaneous output can be obtained in a strong explosion style.
Using exactly this, Eindhoven University of Technology researchers have developed a soft robotic motion system. Small valve with flexible structure, which is prepared in a simple but effective way, can convert constant airflow into instantaneous pulses and thus movable by air, for example. soft fingers can be designed. This air-pulsed system is also a robot with soft legs. It can also be used for movement.
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Of course, this system, which is still far from practical use, promises a great future due to its simple and inexpensive structure. The system, which does not require any electronics and can only function with an air pump, It can make the robots of the future more efficient, cheap and effective. Thanks to these and similar studies, the humanoid robots of the future may not consist of hard blocks, but from soft and flexible parts like real people.