Soft Robot Tech Co., Ltd. (SRT)
"Vegetable Revolution" of SRT Flexible Gripper
Relying on software robot technology, SRT's self-developed SFG flexible gripper meets the actual needs of European and American manufacturers.
SFG flexible grippers have been widely used in the flexible
sorting of fresh food, fruits and vegetables and other industries.
“Vegetable Revolution”
It can pick up a whole bag of vegetables or a round vegetable without any damage, and the flexible gripper is of great significance to the automatic sorting of vegetables.
Specifically, the difficulty in sorting special-shaped vegetables such as pumpkins, cabbage, onions, and tomatoes is that these vegetables are round in shape, and most of the skins are delicate and fragile, and they are easy to fall during handling, increasing the damage rate.
Today, some large fruit and vegetable suppliers or food retailers in Europe and the United States have summed up a lot of valuable experience from their own automatic storage work for many years. The purpose of employees and improving production capacity.
Relying on software robot technology, SRT’s self-developed SFG flexible gripper just meets the actual needs of European and American manufacturers. It not only plays a key role in the fine operation of fruits, vegetables, food, etc., but also achieves a breakthrough under the tacit cooperation with the robotic arm. Unique production capacity, with the characteristics of independence, professionalism, and precision.
The proportion of flexible grippers in the entire automated production line: 30%
According to statistics, in the process of fully automatic operation in the factory, about 30% of the work is related to the grasping of the end fixture.
Before the intervention of flexible grippers, vegetable sorting lines were mostly manual or semi-automatic. Both manual sorting and traditional grippers have certain grasping defects. “Round vegetables are not easy to grasp. The delicate skin of tomatoes is easily scratched and then rotted, which eventually leads to product loss.” A person in charge of an Australian tomato sorting line mentioned.
SRT flexible gripper is an intelligent end gripper with powerful perception, which can increase the flexibility and reliability of the entire sorting operation. During the sorting process, the SRT flexible gripper can simulate the wrapping gripping action of human hands, and can firmly grasp objects of various shapes and sizes. Its strong adaptive performance makes it impossible for collaborative robots to perform traditional grippers. capture task.
Among them, the gripper fingers are made of food-grade silicone, which meets multiple food-grade certification indicators such as US FDA testing, EU AP testing, and Japanese JFSL370 testing, and can be safely applied to fruit, vegetable and food sorting lines.
Overall cost savings achievable with SRT flexible grippers: more than 6 times
SRT flexible grippers solve some gripping problems encountered by rigid grippers and suction cups in the current market, and also provide more solution support for many enterprises to transform into automated and flexible production, helping enterprises improve production efficiency and product yield.
SRT flexible grippers can touch items from -40°C to 150°C. Generally, SRT flexible grippers are very suitable for handling high-temperature food and low-temperature cold chain fruits, vegetables, and meat. This is also an inherent advantage that manual operations cannot match. After calculation, the introduction of a set of grippers, if the mechanical arm, machine vision equipment, etc. are added, the whole set of equipment is less than the wages of 3 workers for a whole year.
At the same time, the repeated positioning accuracy of the SRT flexible claw is 0.08mm, its operating frequency is 300CPM, and its service life can reach 3 million times. In addition, the grippers only need to be deployed at the original worker’s station, and there is no need to make too many modifications to the factory building, which truly realizes all-round cost savings.
The application ratio of SRT flexible grippers in vegetable types: more than 90%
SRT flexible grippers are available in various models. In the actual sorting of round vegetables, for grasping larger-sized vegetables (such as cabbage, purple cabbage, cauliflower, etc.), you can use the SRT flexible gripper SFG series 4-finger 5087 model;
For grasping small size vegetables (such as potatoes, tomatoes, onions, etc.), you can replace the 5056 model with 4 fingers side by side, or the 4049 model with 4 fingers around the circumference.
With the combination of the two models, it can sort 90% of round vegetables on the market. That is to say, a set of grippers can grab vegetables of various sizes and shapes. Its grasping force is controllable and does not cause any damage to the vegetables.
Not only that, SFG flexible grippers have become an economical alternative to manual fruit and vegetable sorting. The SFG flexible gripper has a low rate of loss of items, which improves the product qualification rate and production efficiency, and at the same time avoids many defects caused by manual picking. With the vision-guided robot, the SFG flexible gripper can also be used for damage detection and positioning of fruits and vegetables, thereby doubling the work efficiency.
At present, SFG flexible grippers have been widely used in the flexible sorting of fresh food, fruits and vegetables and other industries. With its soft and stable gripping characteristics, SFG flexible grippers are very suitable for fragile, easily deformed, different-sized, items of different sizes for handling.
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