Handover of a Yaskawa HC10 cobot to the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab at EPFL

A robot for robotics research

The Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) at EPFL conducts research into the development of innovative robotic systems such as soft and origami robots – now with the support of a Yaskawa Cobot HC10. The robot was officially handed over on 28 May.

Consisting of triangular or polygonal modules, they can be assembled to create a wide variety of shapes and are able to move in all directions. “Our robots are inspired by the Japanese art of paper folding. That’s why we call them ‘reconfigurable origami robots’,” explains Alexander Schüßler, doctoral student at the Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL), a research unit at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL).