{"id":441,"date":"2010-10-27T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-27T13:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/?p=441"},"modified":"2010-10-26T17:06:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-26T23:06:01","slug":"universal-robot-gripper-made-with-coffee-and-a-balloon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/2010\/10\/27\/universal-robot-gripper-made-with-coffee-and-a-balloon\/","title":{"rendered":"Universal Robot Gripper &#8211; Made with Coffee and a Balloon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/robotballoonarm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/robotballoonarm.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"robotballoonarm\" width=\"324\" height=\"221\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-442\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/robotballoonarm.png 324w, https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/robotballoonarm-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 324px) 100vw, 324px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sometimes the simplest things work the best.  Researchers at Cornell, University of Chicago and iRobot (the Roomba folks) have created a robot gripper that is made with ground coffee and a latex balloon.   <\/p>\n<p>Basically, they vacuum air out of the coffee filled balloon and the structure inside becomes rigid.  Let air in, and the structure relaxes.   Think of how hard a brick of coffee is, and what it&#8217;s like after you cut through the vacuum packing.<\/p>\n<p>The balloon presses into the object that they want to grip, vacuum out the air, and the balloon and coffee grip the object.   A very inexpensive solution to a problem many people have been working on for a long time.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the details and video at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.physorg.com\/news\/2010-10-robotic-gripper-coffee-balloons.html\">Physorg.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the simplest things work the best. Researchers at Cornell, University of Chicago and iRobot (the Roomba folks) have created a robot gripper that is made with ground coffee and a latex balloon. Basically, they vacuum air out of the coffee filled balloon and the structure inside becomes rigid. Let air in, and the structure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,69],"tags":[251,250,48],"class_list":["post-441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-gadget","tag-balloon","tag-coffee","tag-robot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.futuresteve.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}