Permanent Magnetic Robot End of Arm Tool for De-palletizing Cans of Vegetables

We build a lot of different machines at BTS but this magnetic EOAT is one of the most complex jobs we have done. I collaborated with Bob Wolf on this. Bob is a physicist who specializes in magnets. Today we tested it with a few cans of fruit cocktail. The magnet uses 16 air cylinders to strip the cans off.

In this video we put 5 cans under the tool and used our forklift to raise and lower the tool to the cans. Once the cans were attached, we raised the tooling and operated the stripper cylinders to drop the cans.
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