Fords Robutt (Robobottoms)

The Ford company announced on October 27, 2017 creation by engineers of the company of the robot, with a big accuracy of the imitating movement of the person when landing in an automobile chair and disembarkation from it. It allowed to reproduce strain which is experienced by a chair in actual practice.

In a basis of the programmed movements of the robot who got the nickname Robutt (Robopop) the research conducted by means of a touch rug is necessary. The rug placed on a seat pillow precisely registered loading places of application that allowed to create the card of pressure describing most widespread "route" of hips and buttocks when landing in a seat and disembarkation from it.

Testing of a chair using Robutt

From the moment of landing in the car the seat creates feeling of comfort and quality — Svenja Froehlich, durability engineer in head division of the European division of Ford in Cologne, Germany told. — Earlier we used pneumatic cylinders which just moved to a vertical up and down. With Robopop we can reproduce these movements of the person very precisely now.

The robot imitating the person (more precisely, a nozzle on his mechanical "hand" - the manipulator) approximately corresponds to the sizes and weight of the adult of a large constitution. With its help it was succeeded to complete the test reproducing load of Ford Fiesta seat within 10 years of operation in only 3 weeks. For this purpose Robopop had "to sit down" on a seat and "to rise" from it 25 thousand times. Already chairs of all Ford models available in Europe will shortly put on this trial.

Robutt in operation, on October 18, 2017

Robotics