{"id":4246,"date":"2012-05-19T01:29:31","date_gmt":"2012-05-19T06:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2012-08-06T16:04:26","modified_gmt":"2012-08-06T21:04:26","slug":"jamming-grippers-combine-to-form-robotic-elephant-trunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4246","title":{"rendered":"Jamming Grippers Combine to Form Robotic Elephant Trunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/robotics-hardware\/jamming-grippers-combine-to-form-robotic-elephant-trunk\">Jamming Grippers Combine to Form Robotic Elephant Trunk &#8211; IEEE Spectrum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/industrial-robots\/universal-jamming-gripper\">\u201cJamming\u201d<\/a> has to be one of the coolest new actuation techniques we\u2019ve seen in the last couple years, and we\u2019ve recently covered a bunch of fascinating implementations of it, including <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/diy\/jamming-robot-gripper-grows-some-legs\">walking robots<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/automaton\/robotics\/diy\/jamming-robot-gripper-learns-to-shoot-stuff-humans-surrender\">grippers that can throw stuff<\/a>. MIT may have just topped everyone by developing a robotic elephant trunk that\u2019s strong, flexible, and, since it\u2019s made mostly out of coffee grounds, absolutely dirt cheap.<\/p>\n<p>The jamming technique was developed jointly at Cornell University, University of Chicago, and iRobot back in late 2010.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamming Grippers Combine to Form Robotic Elephant Trunk &#8211; IEEE Spectrum. &nbsp; \u201cJamming\u201d has to be one of the coolest new actuation techniques we\u2019ve seen in the last couple years, and we\u2019ve recently covered a bunch of fascinating implementations of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4246\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[737],"tags":[100,631,387],"class_list":["post-4246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem","tag-interesting-research","tag-material-science","tag-mit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5475,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/5475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}