Walking into Purdue University’s Mechanisms And Robotic Systems Lab feels like falling into a child’s imagination of what a lab could be. Giant robotic silver arms with black joints reach out from tables and up from the floor. Wires and 3D-printed bits and bobbles cover the graduate students’ bench space like jigsaw puzzle pieces waiting to be put together. A standing whiteboard is pushed against the far end of the room, scrawled over in doodles of cubes and equations that only an engineer could understand.
Robots, future of agriculture
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A tactile sensor feels objects by looking at deformations they cause in a transparent gel from a camera stored inside.
From left, Sheeraz Athar, Jian Jin and Yu She look at how their two-arm robotic system is able to automate LeafSpec scans of corn leaves.
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