Pizza Peels Inspire New Type of Robot 'Hand'

Posted by Adam Kuban, August 5, 2009 at 3:45 PM

I somehow missed this awesome pizza-related robotics news last week, but it looks like the Japanese have taken inspiration from pizza-makers and the way they control their pizza peels in designing a new type of robot "hand":

"An Italian chef dextrously manipulates a pizza in an oven using a tool called a pizza peel," says Makoto Kaneko, the team's leader at Osaka University. A pizza peel consists of little more than a flat blade attached to the end of a long pole, but it gives the chef a surprising degree of control over the pizza. Kaneko's team has designed a robotic hand based on a pizza peel that allows robots to exert similar control.

We all need control—especially robots. [via PMQ]

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