The mission
- Lift and move barrels with chemicals or pills and empty them into funnels for mixers or packaging
- Gradually empty the contents with full control of the operator
- The barrels must be gripped exactly tight enough to be neither dropped nor crushed
- It should not be possible to release the barrel when it is in the air
- The machine is going to be used in clean rooms

Requirements for the manipulator
- Maximum load about 100 kg
- The barrel must be kept immobile when emptied
- It must be possible to control the emptying steplessly
- Soft but secure grip of the barrel
- Safety function to prevent release into the air
- Fully encapsulated, smooth mechanism so that no dust can get stuck in cracks
- Must withstand cleaning with hot lye