End-effector device for automating the laying up of composites
The Flexply™ is a pick-and-place end-effector which allows the labour intensive process of manually laying up composites to be automated. Conceived at the National Composites Centre, it has a flexible sheet which can be manipulated by smaller peripheral robotic arms to various shapes and orientations. The flexible sheet is provided with an array of apertures which, linked by tubes and through solenoid valves to a vacuum source, can each be individually provided with suction
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