Longworth Robot Gripper

Devout long term readers of this blog may remember my longworth chuck design and build which got re-hashed relatively recently into a dividing tool (as seen in Hackspace magazine issue 29 article on dividing which also has links to the project files on thingiverse). I've been interested in its application as a robotic arm gripper for a while and decided to prototype a servo driven one which might be able to be mounted on the opensource Modular Tracked Vehicle (MTV) robot as featured again with all the design files linked in hackspace magazine issue 32.



I'm pretty pleased with this first pass prototype (as usual with heaps of hot glue etc) and I'm going to continue to develop and refine it a little as I think it could be quite a fun gripper type for people interested in robot challenges etc to think about using. Check out the video above to see it in action and feel free to subscribe to the Youtube channel.