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 |
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10:15 – 10:50 |
Poster session |
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| 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
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Kaitlyn Becker |
| 11.30 – 11.50 |
A Multimodal, Reconfigurable Workspace Soft Gripper for Advanced Grasping Tasks
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Saikrishna Dontu
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| 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
