The replica raspberries are marvels of engineering.
And what they have achieved is no small feat: the CREATE engineers designed and built a silicone raspberry that can “tell” the robot how much pressure is being applied, allowing the machines to harvest the fruit without damaging it.
“The hardest part is training the robot to loosen its grip once the raspberry detaches from the receptacle so that the fruit doesn’t get squashed. That’s hard to achieve with conventional robots.” The research is still at its infancy with the lab’s harvesting robot consisting of little more than a gripper with two 3D-printed fingers covered with a thin layer of silicone and attached to a robotic arm. As such, the technology itself is far from mature.
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