Background

A major pain point in industrial gripping is the ability to handle complex, tangle-prone materials such as fresh herbs, salads, noodles, wires, tubes, yarns and fibres, and net packaging. These are important in many manufacturing applications, such as packaging lines for the food industry, where typically the only viable solution is to employ low-skilled, yet expensive manual labour.

Technology Overview

Researchers at KCL have developed a robot picking technology that enables the introduction of robotic or machine automation of a wide variety of handling tasks that cannot currently be addressed with existing industrial grippers, such as suction cups or fingered grippers, and is therefore highly attractive to a wide range of businesses across manufacturing and supply chain logistics. This