Agricultural robotics and automation technology plays an increasingly critical role across several crop production stages to improve sustainability (e.g., water use optimization). Robotics has been applied for remote and proximal sensing as well as physical sampling. The procedure of physical sampling and follow-on analysis of plant specimens, such as leaves or shoots, which is … [Read more...] about Robotic Assessment of a Crop’s Need for Watering: Automating a Time-Consuming Task to Support Sustainable Agriculture
Production
Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production
Tactile robot-based assembly line adaptation of new products is still limited by the manual redesign, manufacturing, and exchange of the end-effector setup since the gripper fingers must often be adapted to the geometry of the product components to ensure a successful assembly process. In this article we present an automatic finger design, production, and evaluation pipeline, … [Read more...] about Automatic Gripper-Finger Design, Production, and Application: Toward Fast and Cost-Effective Small-Batch Production
