Abstract

The “Python” project aims to achieve a continuous robotic arm based on an innovative fluid approach, being intended for harvesting and inspection works specific to precision agriculture and vertical farms of smart cities.

The novelty of the approach consists in the concept and the proposed innovative technology that allow the realization of a continuous manipulative arm, of fluidic type (ecological), characterized by suppleness (small ratio between diameter and arm length), force (fluid drive), hyper-dexterity (continuous architecture) and large workspace (spherical).