2020
Volume 20, Number 2, pp. 50-53
Development of a flexible fingertip using magnetic functional fluid
I. Murakami, Long Bui Si, N. Yamashita and Y. Ando
Deparment of Mechanical Science and Technology, Gunma University. 1-5-1 Tenjin-cho, Kiryu. 376-8515, Japan
For manipulators, grippers using flexible materials have been developed extensively. By using a flexible material, it is possible to grasp easily breakable objects and objects with different shapes. In this work, we developed two grippers with fingertips using two kind of magnetic functional fluid. We checked their performance by making them grasp various objects, with the aim of not breaking them.
Keywords: flexible robot gripper, magnetic fluid, magnetorheological fluid, robot hand