Finalist Spotlight - Dynamic Robotic Manipulation - KUKA Innovation Award 2018

KUKA Innovation Award 2018 – Finalist Spotlight
Dynamic Manipulation | Team DynaMap | Draper / MIT / Harvard, USA

Application
Enable robots to autonomously manipulate deformable materials for food preparation

Challenge
Manipulate materials which change during interaction, such as in a kitchen environment

Solution
Model-based and learned path planning algorithms for precisely extracting a specific volume or mass of a deformable material

Features
• Enables robotic manipulation of food-grade materials in standard kitchen arrangements
• Autonomously generate motion plans based on material, utensil and container
• Model-based trajectory optimization combined with a learned planning algorithm
• Approach is adaptable to other deformable materials which can be manipulated with utensils
• System adapts in real-time to current material in the container

Closing team slide:
Team DynaMap
Dynamic Manipulation
Draper
Syler Wagner
Justin Rooney
Steven Lines
Dr. David M.S. Johnson
Prof. Scott Kuindersma
Prof. Russ Tedrake
#HM18

[TheCloudPuff]

From a practicality stand point, would it be better to simply "squeeze" the ice cream out of the container like a syringe of sort?

[aryamanbhagat]

The footers just said scooping ice cream in many different ways.