Biography
Biography: Charlie Duncheon
Abstract
Since the beginning of robotics until today most robots in assembly and handling automation are equipped with part-specific grippers. Typically, these grippers are mechanical or vacuum in form factor. This approach does not work with high mix applications. One example of a high mix application is in the order fulfillment market for E-commerce order fulfillment. This talk will address the challenge in more detail, technology limitations in meeting the challenge, and new developments that hold promise to truly build a flexible robot gripper for very broad ranges of products.
