120ftMaster's Thesis: Robotic Screw Driving
Stockholm · Internship
Why join 120ft?
Picture products built by robots in shipping containers beside the customers who buy them, and 120ft, a Stockholm industrial robotics startup, could be the company that makes that routine. Four angel backers have put $646K in, which is modest, but nine open roles, six in engineering, show the build-out has started. Two of those roles opened in the last 30 days, so early engineers will set the pace.
JustBacked's take, based on 120ft's own site and its funding and hiring data.
Help a humanoid robot turn a screwdriver. In this master's thesis at 120ft, you will compare approaches to robotic screw driving, then design, build and validate a working prototype.
Host: 120ft Factory AB, Stockholm
Company supervisor: Hsiu-Fang Chien
Field: Mechanical and electrical design, mechatronics
Background
120ft builds Factory OS for humanoid robots, currently the Unitree G1-D, doing high-mix, low-volume assembly. The current Dex1-1 parallel-jaw gripper cannot reliably align and drive a screw, and there is no dedicated solution for it today.
Several directions are plausible: a handheld screwdriver the gripper picks up, a dedicated end-effector with swappable bit heads, or a screwdriver mounted on the arm or wrist. Each brings different trade-offs in mechanical complexity and how much it limits the gripper's other uses.
What you will build
Compare solutions. Evaluate at least these three approaches against criteria including fastener and thread size range, minimum torque and axial force, wrist or arm adaptor needs, and position precision and accuracy. Choose a direction with reasoning the supervisors can follow.
Design and build. Develop a working prototype of the chosen solution with its own power source and a microcontroller-based control interface.
Validate under teleoperation. Drive the robot through the screwing sequence and demonstrate repeated, reliable use of the tool.
What we provide
A technical supervisor.
Access to a real Unitree G1-D.
Workshop and prototyping support as available.
Who this is for
You are a master's student in mechatronics, machine design or robotics, comfortable with both mechanical and electrical design.
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