Development of Hydraulically-driven Soft Hand for Handling Heavy Vegetables and its Experimental Evaluation

Osamu Azami,Kyosuke Ishibashi,Mitsuo Komagata,Ko Yamamoto,Osamu Azami,Kyosuke Ishibashi,Mitsuo Komagata,Ko Yamamoto

In this study, we develop a hydraulically-driven soft robotic hand for handling heavy vegetables in a vegetable factory and report its experimental validations. The working population in agriculture is decreasing worldwide, creating a lot of demands for the robotic automation in harvest and trans-portation of agricultural produces. In particular, a vegetable factory deals with large and heavy vege...