Chapter 3: Building an Industrial Robot Claw
Industrial robots have been around for a long time. In many cases, industrial robots are not the humanoid-looking robots we imagine when thinking of robots. Instead, many are robot claws that can do a wide variety of tasks: surgery, welding, assembly, painting, and more. In this chapter, you are going to build a robotic claw pick up a red ball that comes with the kit, to better understand how these claws work and operate. In the following screenshot, you can see what you will be building:
Figure 3.1 – Robotic claw
In this chapter, we will break down the build and program, as follows:
- Build the ...
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