NEWS 28 April 2022

Addressing the challenge of agri-food variability

Robots have been extremely successful in the past decades, for instance in the car industry, and have also entered the agri-food production chain.


However, current robot technology is no match to human workers when it comes to dealing with variation and flexibility. The NWO Perspective programme FlexCraft addresses the scientific challenge of how to deal with large variations in shape, size and softness of agri-food products in combination with variations in environment and tasks in a robust way. This Mikroniek article describes how FlexCraft aims to equip robot technology with generic capabilities in active perception, world modelling, planning and control, and gripping and manipulation. (Photo courtesy of FlexCraft)


References

Jan-Pieter Rijstenbil (TU Eindhoven) receives…

Prize for careful process analysis and early validation. During the 23rd edition of the Precision Fair in Den Bosch (NL), the Wim van der Hoek Award was presented under the auspices of DSPE (Dutch Society for Precision Engineering).

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Bert Brals (Sioux Technologies) receives…

Creative inventor, collaborating foreman and true teacher. During the 23rd edition of the Precision Fair, the Rien Koster Award was presented for the tenth time under the auspices of DSPE (Dutch Society for Precision Engineering).

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Wim van der Hoek Award…

This year, the jury has received four nominations for students who applied existing or new design principles in their graduation work in an exciting manner.

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