Application and Perspective on Soft Technologies for Robotized Manufacturing
In the current context,traditional manufacturing solutions are no longer able to meet the increasingly challeng-ing manufacturing requirements of large-scale workpieces,and robotized manufacturing solutions emerge as a pivotal means of addressing these challenges.However,several limitations persist,such as complex structures,low conformability,easy damage to the workpiece,and the difficulty in integrating the processing and detection.To solve the above issues,the con-cept of integrating soft technology into robotized manufacturing system is proposed.The integration of soft stiffness-variable technologies,flexible sensor technologies,and soft gripper technologies into domains of robotized processing,robotized mea-suring,robotized assembling will endow robotized systems with advantages of lightweight,compliance,non-destructiveness,non-impact,and integration.This provides robotized manufacturing system with novel solutions.Furthermore,consider-ing the future development of robotized manufacturing,the significant application potential of soft technology is analyzed,aiming to further develop robotized manufacturing towards tri-co robots(coexisting-cooperative-cognitive robots).