My friend Chad Jenkins turned me on to this very nifty and very functional robot arm for the iRobot Create. It’s elegant in its simplicity, and would be a great weekend robotics project.
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This arm seems to be a lot helpful to people on wheelchair or for those who cannot bend down for medical reasons.
If the flat tray on which the arm places objects can be magnetized this could be used for picking up metallic objects too like nuts,pins,nails etc.
“It’s elegant in it’s simplicity”
1st “It’s” is correct.
2nd “it’s” should be “its” (no apostrophe in possessive pronouns).
Ouch. I could pretend that I did that on purpose, but I didn’t. Mistake fixed… Thanks for paying close attention!
This is called the “Dustpan” robot. It was built at Georgia Tech’s Healthcare Robotics Lab and documented in an ICRA 2009 paper entitled, “1000 Trials: An Empirically Validated End Effector that Robustly Grasps Objects from the Floor.”
You can find out more about it at Hizook.com
http://www.hizook.com/blog/2009/05/08/irobot-create-roomba-dustpan-end-effector-grasps-objects-floor
Travis, thank you for the additional information. I’ll be at ICRA 2010. Hopefully the Healthcare Robots Lab will bring more cool innovations to show off!