Encontre aqui as ligações às notícias que deram origem aos últimos CIÊNCIA N@ WEB, segmento que está a passar nos plasmas TVU., em toda a U.Porto:
Here you can find the links of the news that lead to the last "CIÊNCIA N@ WEB" a program of TVU., screened in the whole University of Porto:
Capabilities of jamming universal gripper robot arm effector
> Via: physorg.com
15/02/2012 - Researchers from Cornell University filled an ordinary party balloon with dried coffee, which they then affixed to a vacuum pump. Adding air made the coffee pliant enough to allow the balloon to settle around an object. Quickly sucking out the air caused the coffee to compress (jam together) exerting pressure on the object, allowing it to be held and moved around by the gripper which was attached to a programmable robot arm. Now, a subset of that team has added a new feature to their universal gripper, the ability to accurately toss the objects that it picks up. [video]

