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End effector requires its own controls

To bring its game changing robotic end effector to the marketplace, Soft Robotics’s Carl Vause says that a whole new approach to controls had to be taken.

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To bring its game changing robotic end effector to the marketplace, Soft Robotics’s Carl Vause says that a whole new approach to controls had to be taken.

The traditional method, he says, is that you source your vacuum cups from one of the suppliers that are out there and then you find a vacuum generator. Then you get a PLC to control the pneumatic valve that puts air through the vacuum generator attached to the cup. “It’s a matter of buying available components and building the system, and then you have to plug that into your robot controller and then program it up and work on the timing,” says Vause.

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