Traditional mechanical equipment such as rigid operators and flexible hands have been widely used in human social life and production. The manipulator is primarily responsible for structural, repetitive, and clumsy operations in industrial sites, and is carried out in the direction of high positioning accuracy, high flexibility, and high speed. The flexible hand has more freedom and accurate force level control, but its control is also more chaotic.
With the development of the manufacturing industry, problems such as poor interaction, poor adaptability to the messy environment, and inflexibility of traditional manipulators have been exposed. People have put forward new requirements for bionic human hand machinery and equipment, so in recent years, the application of soft data planning and production of soft hands has attracted widespread attention.
The soft hand makes full use of the natural flexibility of various flexible materials, including rubber, polymer, intelligent data, etc., and its nonlinear, viscoelastic and hysteresis characteristics in the movement and control of the soft hand potential "mechanical intelligence", and then reduces the clutter of the control to achieve high flexibility and outstanding interaction.
A company located in Suzhou, a soft touch robot developer and manufacturer. It is reported that the soft touch robot has completed the angel round of financing of 10 million yuan in December last year, and the investors are Mingshi Capital and Shuimu Capital, and the potential energy capital serves as the exclusive financial advisor for this transaction.
Zhang Fan, CEO of Soft Touch Robot, said that although there have been many studies on the relevant skills of soft grippers, if you want to turn laboratory samples into mass-produced products, their cost, lifespan, and uniformity are all factors to consider in mass production.
In order to improve the life of the product, the soft touch robot has improved the basic data, and added nano additives to the polymer matrix to improve the tensile strength and wear resistance of the existing flexible materials. The development of the data itself has a high knowhow, because in addition to the selection and proportion of the data, the production process, environment and conditions will also affect the production effect. The Softtouch Robot has filed a patent for the relevant data innovation skills.
The yield and consistency of the product are mainly related to the production process. Zhang Fan has many years of experience as a factory production line project manager and understands production line planning skills. At the same time, Zhang Fan has previous entrepreneurial experience in the development and production of testing and testing instruments, which can assist the soft touch robot to make targeted improvements after receiving defect feedback. It is reported that the flexible gripper of the soft touch robot mainly covers the grasping of objects within 5kg, with an average life of about 3 million times, and the product yield and consistency are still being optimized.
In addition to offering a complete range of claw kits (including two-finger, three-, four- and five-finger claw kits) and the "soft beak" series for delicate occupations, Soft Touch Robotics has also launched more than 30 single-finger modular planning flat combination kits. The splicing planning of the finger module broadens the application scenarios and provides users with more choices. Zhang Fan told reporters that modular planning is the primary point of difference between Soft Touch and other products on the market. For FlexTouch, modular planning increases the number of product SKUs, which requires improving the flexibility of the production line and the ability of product quality inspection.
The fifth-generation product of the soft touch robot is in the stage of small-scale mass production and trial testing, and it is expected that large-scale mass production and shipment will be carried out in the second half of the year. Zhang Fan said that they are now mainly through integrators to cut into labor-intensive, low-automation occupations, such as logistics, toys, food packaging, 3C electronics, car parts, clothing textiles, etc.
The development and production of high-quality flexible grippers are difficult, and this market is temporarily in the blue ocean stage, so there are not many products that can be seen on the market. United States SoftRobotics was the first to conduct related research and commercialization, but it was mainly concentrated in the food and agriculture fields, and the price was high, so it had no competitive advantage in China. The imitation products of Festo in Germany have not yet entered the stage of large-scale mass production and shipment.
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