Testing the flexure of the prototype telepresence robot finger

Here a prototype rigging for achieving flexure with the telepresence robot finger is demonstrated. Whereas the range of motion is good the axial force applied is a bit high. A redesign which loosens the joints in the finger will be the next step. The finger was designed with the open source Art of Illusion 3D modeling system. The resulting STL file was processed into print instructions with the prototype, open source Slice and Dice app. Ultimately, the finger was printed with a Rapman 3.0 printer using the 4.0 release of the firmware. Rapman is a re-engineered commercial version of the open source Darwin printer.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• telepresence
• robot
• finger
• Slice and Dice
• Reprap
• Rapman
• Art of Illusion