SOFT GRIPPERS

FROM THE LABS TO THE MARKET

Workshop 9 (W9) at RoboSoft conference, Singapore

WHEN: APRIL 3, 2023. 08.30 – 12.30

WHERE: Level 4, Sands Expo and Convention Centre

CALL FOR POSTERS: we will select posters on soft grippers to be presented during our poster session.

BEST POSTER AWARD of 300 SGD offered by our sponsors. Submit posters to vito.cacucciolo@poliba.it

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Top-tier researchers on soft grippers from all-over the world. Diversity in background, gender, career stage.

SHINICHI HIRAI

Ritsumeikan University, JP

CRISTINA PIAZZA

Technical University of Munich, DE

ZACH YODER

Max Planck Inst. for Intelligent Systems, DE

JOSIE HUGHES

EPFL, CH

VITO CACUCCIOLO

Omnigrasp SRL, IT

KAITLYN BECKER

MIT, US

SAIKRISHNA DONTU

Singapore Univ. of Tech. and Design, SG

KENJIRO TADAKUMA

Tohoku University, JP

AGENDA

TIME TOPIC SPEAKER
08:30 – 08:40 Opening The organizers
08:40 – 09:00 Soft Grippers for Food Manipulation Shinichi Hirai
09:00 – 09:20 Talk 2 Cristina Piazza
09:20 – 09:40 A Soft, Fast and Versatile Electrohydraulic Gripper with Capacitive Object Size Detection Zach Yoder
09:40 – 10:00 Translating Soft Robots From Lab to Field Josie Hughes
10:00 – 10.15

Tea Break

10:15 – 10:50

Poster session

10:50 – 11:10 Electroactive soft grippers for flexible and delicate objects Vito Cacucciolo
11:10 – 11:30
Design and Fabrication for Soft and Stochastically Distributed Contact
Kaitlyn Becker
11.30 – 11.50
A Multimodal, Reconfigurable Workspace Soft Gripper for Advanced Grasping Tasks
Saikrishna Dontu
11.50 – 12.10 X-Resistant Soft Gripper Mechanisms Kenjiro Tadakuma
12.10 – 12.30 Closing remarks The organizers
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch

 

ORGANIZERS

 

KOICHI SUZUMORI

TOKYO INSTUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JP

COSIMO DELLA SANTINA

TU DELFT, NL

SHINGO MAEDA

TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, JP

VITO CACUCCIOLO

OMNIGRASP AND POLITECNICO DI BARI, IT

SPONSORSHIP