Festo Learning Gripper

Festo Learning Gripper successfully on Hanover Fair

On behalf of the company Festo the so called Learning Gripper was developed by KIDS. It is a robot gripper with four fingers which learns independently to rotate a ball in raised position in any given orientation.

Here are only fundamental operations and possible positions of the fingers as well as feedback features of the environment defined in advance. The Learning Gripper only receives the specification what it should be able to do. But not how it should solve the task. This complex movement strategy is developed by learning algorithms of the Gripper independently – without any further programming.

 

Publications

• FESTO: Learning Gripper und Bionic Learning Network (German)
• FESTO: Learning Gripper and Bionic Learning (English)
• FESTO-Brochure with Photos and Explanations (German)
• FESTO-Brochure with Photos and Explanations (English)

Publishing

• Dexterous Manipulation Using Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning

Videos

• Horizontale Rotation
• Rotating Logo
• Deploying the Learned Strategy

Press

Golem.de: Robot Gripper Learns with Ball (German)

Schwaebische.de: A Robot with flair (German)

Project partners

Steinbeis-Transferzentrum Künstliche Intlligenz und Datensicherheit (KIDS)