Hanover Fair 2017Robotics Award 2017 for simulation software
First place in this year's Robotics Award went to the company Flexstructures from Kaiserslautern. It entered the competition with a smart software solution. Computer&AUTOMATION shows the three finalists of the Robotics Award.
With the pressureless vacuum generator 'eta|vac' for handling tasks in robotics, the company Eta|opt from Kassel made it into the top three of this year's Robotics Award. The principle of the third-placed solution: a piston rod connected to a bellows is moved by an electromechanical linear drive. The bellows is connected to a commercially available suction cup for vacuum applications via a hose. The volume of the bellows can be increased or reduced by moving it up and down. This allows a vacuum to be generated up to the suction cup.