ISABEL: Handhabung und Logistik – Life-Science-Szenario

The mobile assistance robot ANNIE was developed by the Fraunhofer IFF in Magdeburg, Germany, as a universal system able to be used for a large number of industrially relevant applications. The robot was intended as a development platform, both for showcasing individual technologies and for test and development of the necessary software and systems integrations tools necessary for supporting such a universal system. For the life-science scenario we demonstrate in this video, the robot must be able to autonomously navigate to different rooms, including being able to open a standard door. It needs to pick up microwell plates from a table that were prepared by a human lab assistant and put them into a larger carrier for efficiency. Next, the plates need to be taken to a drop-off point representing the load-port of some automated handling machine. These requirements would usually call for different grippers specific to the objects that require handling (plates, carrier, door handle). However, we were able to successfully use the 3-finger robotic hand for all handling and manipulation tasks in this scenario.