Nominated for "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2010"

Inspired by the elephant's trunk -- a high-tech helper for industry and the home: Team from Festo and Fraunhofer IPA nominated for "Deutscher Zukunftspreis 2010"

UPDATE: on 2 December 2010 the Team received the "Innovation Oscar" for Bionic Handling Assistant from the German President in Berlin.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Bionic Handling Assistant
• BHA
• Bionic Gripper
• Elephants trunk
• Festo
• Fraunhofer IPA

[barakuda1111]

Thats a big egg. Tell me more about the egg

[turgo82]

its Doctor Octopus arm!

[SuperPatriotMom]

I am a homeschool mom who is doing a Robotics unit with my son. It is amazing how this arm is made from plastic!

[AkimboJoe]

You can't speak until you have the "talking egg". Should the "talking egg" break, all must remain silent.

[ArticWolf2023]

doc ock! shall be real!!!

[Mulch96]

ich find den voll putzig...ich will auch einen <3

[Xeransystor]

how much cost? ?

[javalin597]

Robot apocalypse, here we come.

[avpkxt]

Really amazing thing, but i think, that material is not very strong, like a Doctor Octopus claws.

[JKJ1900]

Holy Shit Doctor Octopus claws. He have to make sure Alfred Molina stays at least 20 yards away from one of these at all times for our own safety. Or put him and 4 of them in the same room together and see what happens for our own pleasure.

[roidroid]

@walterjennings True. i never thought of it like that.

But can rapid prototyping ramp up to the mass production scales that are generally required (afaik) to make production economical/profitable?

[walterjennings]

@roidroid I wouldn't say the cost of rapid prototype is much more expensive vs injection molding if you factor in the probability*cost of wanting to change the design slightly or be able to print a task specific design.