Presenting the Universal Jamming Gripper

[aboardable93]

But does it blend?

[namrednop]

Great idea! And if you get thirsty and want some coffee, you've got plenty 'At Hand' ha ha ha.

[ibuckyi]

Forget about robots they are slow. Make it for humans with disabilities.

[robonovosti]

Great idea!

[stevefromthepark1]

Can u fuck it?

[kohwp71]

can it pick up a fork ? and how long does it takes ?

[andrew420love]

Why are they making these wtf

[PinkysMulisha]

I want one to pick up dog poop while I sleep in.

[n0miind]

bomberman hand lol !!.

[nobocks]

smart !

Glove with sand and som articulation will be next update ?

[FrenchGambler]

Why does it propose those ducks as next video ? :/

[XxricouxX]

Korben army was there !

[MisterPikol]

this is my ballsack in action

[usmpkp212]

The 1 dislike is Captain Hook

[Crimmyblues]

A+

[shenkeey]

0:53 That's what she said

[Iwatchtrek]

So... Why not just a vacuum...

[TheCoreyCaffeine]

this is how octavia plays cello

[shamsulamar]

Doraemon hands make sense.

[feckingbillgates]

Thumbs up if 1:27 reminds you of a bum.

[grandmasterhsu]

so what happens if glass breaks and you need to pick up the shards to throw them out? doing it by hand my result in an injury, would it pop a hole in the gripper's material? :o

[adriannaoshea]

@grandmasterhsu it doesn't have to be a latex balloon. any soft yet air-tight material would work. latex is just cheapest, thinnest, and easiest to obtain

[KreatorOfDeath1985]

So this is how the powerpuff girls pick stuff up....

[reinux]

DORAEMON HANDS

[WeEatBrainz]

I am surprised that no one has done this until now, the concept is so simple.

[MagnesiumMichael]

why did no one think of this. thats brilliant

[Cubelarooso]

So it's soft and pliable, but gets stiff while gripping? As opposed to getting stiff while BEING gripped?

Universal Jamming Gripper sounds like the greatest band ever, BTW.

[KatherineFallen]

Oh man is that cool

[vevoscksballs]

I saw a guy do this at a party with his scrotum

[xciume]

Doraemon's hand.

[flxcvz]

Damn, that thing pours water much better than me! e.o

[tabletka666]

looks like a saggy silicone boob @3:08

pardon me

[erkhole]

ROBOT HANDJOBS COMING TO A FUTURE NEAR YOU!

[yesgeorgemay]

this shit is amazing. i cant wait for the day when all this robot stuff is finally everywhere. the last parts of the puzzle are coming together. then soon everyone gets a robot. sweet

[yesgeorgemay]

@yesgeorgemay i am so high and i dont think that made any sense

[pigeonata]

reaally coool

[Shack11]

Lol @ screwing around with robot arm at the beginning.

[therealerf909]

This is how ponies work.

[TrenTehGreat]

It's a blue Strongbad hand.

[virphirod]

Is that.. Doraemon's hand?

[clnmyjts]

nice....simple yet effective

[stenchface]

Theres always some idiot who "dislikes" a video that you have absolutely no real reason to dislike. Probably a techno-phobic Christian

[Zareste]

Check out the sponsors at the start. Yep, this is another device that will help them kill us

[rennieallen]

Given that the granular material selected is coffee grounds; I sure hope the control algorithms for the arm were written in Java :-)

[ChoosenOneStudios]

@rennieallen Can it play minecraft?

[bbsonjohn]

Present Doraemon hand.

[waynepj3]

Can it grab the mugs handle? Or would the mug just slide across the table? It needs a thumb. These are just fingers

[ChoosenOneStudios]

When the inventor of this device was very young, someone told them to get a grip. They took this very seriously.

[Fuzzthefurr]

@ChoosenOneStudios Okay, I lol'd at this.

[ChoosenOneStudios]

@Fuzzthefurr :D thanks

[MrFantabuloso]

Could I have this as a seat to take the shape of my ass?

[robertjmunro]

@MrFantabuloso I've seen this done in a hospital to make custom fit seats for wheelchairs. The procedure was to sit the person on an air-tight bean bag, suck the air out, then it would solidify to the right shape. You could then take the person out, make a mould, and make a seat from fibreglass or carbon fibre or similar.

[burtsearwax]

blue balls

[rackmanager]

ที่แท้นี่ก็คือ มือโดเรม่อนของจริงๆที่ประดิษฐ์­ขึ้นมาใช้งานนี่เอง !!

[bumbubi]

Doraemon !!

[Wytryy]

What's the name of this song at the end?

[tanabomb]

doraemon hand LOL

[PanJawelDrugi]

POPE JOHN PAUL II RAPED CHILDREN!

[JIM30747]

Whoever invented this is obviously going to have some serious back problems caused by having to carry all of the money that this thing is going to make to the bank!

[identicalastronauts]

Great work! How about placing small ones at the end of current hand/finger arms? Get the best of both approaches working together. How does it do with soft objects? Can it sort socks yet?

[theossk]

Doraemon Hand  :)

[birdbarrett]

Picking up things, while a big task, seems like only a first step. How would this work for manipulation of the object while it's in the "hand"? I feel like it would drop it as soon as it loses the vacuum at all in attempt to manipulate the object it's holding.

[melloe]

this looks goooood.

[SingleSpiral]

A robotic hand that picks up anything is not really necessary. Robots (at the moment) are used for repetitive tasks and usually only pick up one type of item. Also, they tend to be faster than this one. Good idea though

[DaveTheYellowDart]

@SingleSpiral It sounds like you're seeing this from an industrial perspective, and what you call a "robot" is probably what a lot of researchers might just call a manipulator or an arm. For industrial tasks you're absolutely right, and they largely have what they need. Research is more concerned with needs that remain unanswered, like safe and effective bomb disposal, disaster recovery, space exploration, etc.This opens up some interesting research opportunities.

[dlock2k]

Uncannily similar to the "plunger" used by the Daleks in the Dr. Who series. Amazing!

[Vidar33]

So, let me get this straight. The most advanced robotic 'hand' to date is a party balloon filled with coffee grounds hooked up to a fancy vacuum cleaner? Why did it take so long to develop such a device?

[AngelicDirt]

@Vidar33 Because humans still think that they're the blueprint for everything. Instead of thinking 'fingers' (like we always automatically do, even the smartest of us), they thought 'grip' in this case. Something more like a cuttlefish arm or a snail's foot.

[honorarygaffan]

could this be the future of prosthetics?

[MrOdomonkey]

Giving robots the ability to hold and use things... in future, the survivors of the robot uprising shall curse this day!

[TempleOfSin]

@MrOdomonkey I think it will be fine, they'll need us to maintain their coffee fields.

[MrOdomonkey]

@TempleOfSin ...hence why there are survivors in the first place =[

[mackability729]

so basically all they did was apply a vacuum to a stress relief ball?

[sega7]

@mackability729 Science works in strange ways!

[OllieBostock]

brilliant. hope we see them being used in the future.

[sieem07]

Really cool mechanism, but I'm wondering, how robust is this thing? Can you use it for many many years without having it broken?

[neutralacc]

@sieem07 i think the TCO of the presented mechanism is much more less, then changing the gripper every nth day/month.

[mrbrainstem]

Very very cool.

[gunnm27]

Doraemon~

[ngentotsemua]

Doraemon FTW

[Ryuuken24]

A robot shouldn't be build like a human being, because we possess many flaws, the hand been one of them. Our hand is still evolving, a more suited hand shouldn't have the need for 5 fingers, but 4, keeping the thumb, farther away from the 3 others, the rest of the fingers should be longer. It's all theory, but the practical use of such hand has already been showed to be more suited for many tasks. Thank you !

[zonumb]

Use latex and and a vibration mechanism and say good bye to the wife.

[grauntlet]

can these robots operate as precisely as with traditional handling ?

[seanotube85]

Cool!

[bikesair]

walterjennings. No permeability. Simply the friction of the rubber conforming to the surface shape.

[walterjennings]

Does the gripper solely function by gripping/contracting on the edges of an item using the friction of the rubber, or is the membrane slightly permeable allowing suction to smooth surfaces to assist? Would the gripper be able to pick up a dinner plate from the flat center area?

[TempleOfSin]

@walterjennings When air suction is applied to the inside of the balloon, the coffee grounds compact, thereby maintaining the shape of the surface around the object. The rubber surface also provides some traction. The suction does not permeate through the rubber. The contents of the balloon (in this case coffee) becomes quite rigid because the suction packs it together and the particles jam in shape.

[gnikpac]

@walterjennings maybe it was answered, but I can't look through every comment. I think it isn't permeable because I don't think the granular content would go so rigid if it was under an intense sealed vacuum. Just my guess....

[JuiceGiraffe]

@walterjennings

It's a latex balloon, so I would guess no.

[rpglover101]

@walterjennings It'd be pretty hard to get the right amount of suction through a permeable surface. The holes would need to be small enough to the granular material wouldn't go through, and the suction would have to be powerful enough to both suck the membrane strong enough to grip and suck air through the holes.

[walterjennings]

@rpglover101 Agreed that is a possibility. Though I have a hypothesis that given a membrane that is permeable to air but not coffee grounds, and a strong enough vacuum. You would be able to obtain both particle jamming as well as surface suction functionality out of this design. Might be an interesting line of research for these guys. A smart membrane that only became permeable when in contact with surfaces would be a huge benefit (if possible), that way continuous suction is not required.

[suburbanelite]

@walterjennings Would it even be possible, without the "smart" membrane you mentioned, to obtain suction with only a permeable surface? Take the coin, for example. Upon picking the coin up, there would be a lot of remaining area on that balloon that would be porous, so no seal would be created with the coin's flat surface. If no seal is created, would the vacuum still create suction strong enough to hold the coin to the balloon?

[walterjennings]

@suburbanelite Much in the same way a vacuum with multiple hoses would still have a degree of suction at the end of each hose at all times. It would all depend on having a strong enough vacuum continuously drawing enough air through all pores, such that the pressure differential creates both the particle jamming effect, as well as mild suction on the pores which have contact with the coin. The amount of suction would be dependent on the pressure differential between inside and outside the bag.

[falafel1995]

@walterjennings If it were permeable, the suction would be lost where the gripper is not making contact.

[walterjennings]

@falafel1995 Take a piece of paper and poke a tiny hole it in, then put that on the end of a vacuum cleaner hose, you'll see that even with the presence of uncovered holes, there is still pressure being placed on the membrane (the paper). The amount of pressure will be dependent on the rate of airflow allowed by the holes and the amount of air being pulled out by the vacuum (and the ambient air pressure of course), they will reach a state of equilibrium at some pressure differential.

[Higgins3G]

really thinking out side the box with a great out come good work :)