MEC1281 Effective Communication Blog

The article "This soft robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you"(2017) introduces how in 2017, a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego designed and built a soft robotic grip and its features. The soft robotic gripper can "pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to be trained." It has three fingers made of pneumatic chambers with many degrees of freedom allowing manipulation of the held object. A smart sensing skin made of silicon rubber with embedded sensors made of conducting carbon nanotubes covers each of these three fingers. The sensing skin records and detects the nanotubes’ conductivity changing as the fingers bend. The data is then processed by the control board, which then creates a 3D model of the object the gripper is manipulating. The developers' future additions would be to add artificial intelligence and machine learning to recognize the manipulated objects.

The article "This soft robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you" introduces how in 2017, a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego designed and built a soft robotic grip and its features. The soft robotic gripper can "pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to be trained." It has three fingers made of pneumatic chambers with many degrees of freedom allowing manipulation of the held object. A smart sensing skin made of silicon rubber with embedded sensors made of conducting carbon nanotubes covers each of these three fingers. The sensing skin records and detects the nanotubes conductivity changes as the fingers bend. The data is then processed by the control board, which then creates a 3D model of the object the gripper is manipulating.

The article "This soft robotic gripper can screw in your light bulbs for you" introduces how in 2017, a team of engineers at the University of California San Diego designed and built a soft robotic grip and its features. The soft robotic gripper can "pick up and manipulate objects without needing to see them and needing to be trained." It has three fingers made of pneumatic chambers which have many degrees of freedom allowing manipulation of the held object. Each of these three fingers is covered with a smart sensing skin made of silicone rubber with embedded sensors made of conducting carbon nanotubes. The sensing skin records and detects the nanotubes conductivity changes as the fingers bend. The data is then processed by the control board, which then creates a 3D model of the object the gripper is manipulating.

Subject: Self-introduction to Professor Brad Dear Professor Brad, My name is Adley Pereira, and I am writing this introductory letter to share more about myself. I am a student in your Effective Communications (MEC1281) class. I graduated from Singapore Polytechnic in 2017 with a Diploma in Mechanical Engineering and served my National Service for the following two years before commencing my degree in mechanical engineering at the Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT). I chose to study engineering as it often fascinated me how machines function since I was a child which eventually led me to pursue my interest professionally. I believe that communication is important regardless of what industry we are in as we constantly need to interact with our peers on a day to day basis, and how we do so will influence our daily lives. It does not matter if I am the best engineer if I cannot explain my ideas to my peers and my superiors. I feel that that through my experience as a

Welcome to my blog where I will be sharing my work for MEC1281. This blog will be used strictly for schoolwork.