MIT invents Robo trunk

If there is one muscle in the animals that has established to be very flexible and helpful, I would so much as agree the elephant trunk right behind one’s brains. Of course, as to whether the brain is a kind of muscle or not is really open to explanation, but the luminous folks over at MIT have come up with this distinctive extension of last technology, calling it the Robo trunk and it is a further growth of the robotic universal gripper produced in the past which is capable of picking up a wide range of objects courtesy of an elastic membrane that is filled with coffee grounds.

Whenever the gripper exists on this process, it is able to collapse around an object whenever the coffee grounds are loose, gripping them tightly when air is sucked out of the balloon by a vacuum. Mainly, the MIT team managed to fix a bunch of the grippers together in order for them to form parts in a robotic arm.

The arm, also known as a “trunk bot”, includes five blocking segments with separate vacuum regulators each one placed in between them. IEEE range says that there is also a quartet of manage cables at 90-degree gaps situated around the outside of the arm which will pull on it to supply movement. It will work in tandem with the blocking and unblocking of particular segments, changing the movement of the arm so that it can hold objects like an elephant’s trunk.