FURBOT is a European project developing an improved system for urban freight delivery. In particular a new fully-electrical semi-autonomous vehicle realizing freight transportation is proposed. Although travel between the beginning and end points relies on the human driver, the procedures related to loading and unloading are almost entirely automatized. These include the precise docking of the vehicle at the freight boxes prepared for pick-up, as well as at the unloading location. Two specialized freight handling devices are mounted on the FURBOT van and able to pick up and place down freight boxes with euro-pallet bases.
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This project aims to advance the state of the art in the autonomous perception and manipulation of all kinds of fabrics, textiles and garments.
In particular, our research group is contributing to the project by designing an innovative compliant gripper which provides a safe, flexible, robust, and affordable solution to the garment grasping problem. |
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The objective of SwarmItFIX is to develop a swarm fixture for a large range of thin metal sheet shapes to fully replace the rigid and partially flexible fixtures used today. |