Shaped like a human hand, the soft-touch robot is docile and sensitive, and can easily grasp light bulbs, bread and other items without damage. Are you surprised? Don't believe it, it's called a soft-touch robot, it's so fierce!
The claws are as soft as silicone to the touch. After the demonstration of the staff, Xiaobian saw that these claws can be elastic and stretched within a certain range, and after all, they are like "octopuses" that firmly wrap the object and carry it accurately.
Zhang Fan, the founder of Soft Touch Robot Technology Co., Ltd., is 35 years old this year, graduated from Wuhan University and the University of Stuttgart in Germany, and has worked in well-known industrial enterprises such as Germany and France, serving as planners and project managers.
With the rapid development of the manufacturing industry in the 21st century, the problems of poor interactivity, poor adaptability to the messy environment, and insensitivity of traditional manipulators in the factory have been exposed. In 2010, he returned to China and came to the Science and Technology Innovation Park of the Free Trade Zone of our city to start a business, recruiting a team to carry out experiments and develop human bionic fingers, and committed to applying the soft hand claw to the end of the robotic arm to improve the sensitivity and interaction of the machine.
It is not easy to use the developed automated robot for production. Ensuring that the robot has a 100% stability rate is the first key. To this end, Zhang Fan's R&D team has gone through a seven-year experimental phase. During this period, he and the research and development team forgot to sleep and eat, developed raw materials and planned structures, as well as post-production and assembly. They may be happy at the progress they have made, and they may be frustrated by the failure of the test, but the belief in the many applications of the claw robot has not diminished.
"Until the previous year, after repeated trials and tests, the third generation of hand claw products was launched. We really thought that this was a work that could be handled, and registered the company. Zhang Fan said.
In March 2017, he officially registered "Gusu Soft Touch Robot Technology Co., Ltd.", and the meaning of "soft touch" is to give the robot a pair of docile hands to touch things.
"It's not a good idea to get up and running an automated production line quickly, because early upgrades are a trial-and-error process, the cost is high, and the quality of the product is unstable." After the company was officially registered, Zhang Fan did not choose to sell products immediately, but spent a year visiting customers, listening to the opinions of shopping malls, and after making more improvements, he launched a complete claw kit and a series of "soft beak" products for precision occupations. He also took his products to participate in a number of fairs to test the response of the shopping mall.
In September 2017, at the 2017 World Internet of Things Expo held in Wuxi, the soft tentacle claws of Soft Touch Robot Technology Co., Ltd. attracted everyone's attention once they were exhibited. I saw a black, robotic claw about the size of a baby's hand, precisely grabbing the yolk from the egg, separating it from the egg white, and ensuring the integrity of the yolk. In addition, the "soft beak" series launched by the soft touch robot can also accurately grasp and place delicate objects as small as earrings and even soft and fragile pencil leads. This "meek power" stunned the audience!
With the characteristics of soft, non-toxic, high temperature resistance, acid and alkali resistance, as well as the ability to grasp fragile, easy friction, irregular objects, etc., soft-touch robots are now able to show their skills in logistics, food packaging, electronics, auto parts and other occupations.
"Running in small steps, iterating quickly, this is what our profession must do." According to Zhang Fan, the fourth and fifth generation products of soft tentacles on the market are not the final version, and the research and development team led by him is constantly experimenting and innovating, and strives to produce products that can meet the needs of customers in half a year.
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