End Effectors / Grippers

Sanctuary AI is not waiting for humanoid robots; it’s applying physical AI to demonstrate production-ready performance.

PSYONIC is combining its Ability Hand with ABB Robotics’ GoFa cobot arm to apply data from prosthetics users to robotic grasping.

Festo has released a compact cobot gripper, and its robot-agnostic GripperAI enables grasping of objects without prior training.

Experts from Locus Robotics, Nomagic, and RightHand Robotics will discuss progress in piece picking in this week’s webinar.

XELA Robotics will show at the Robotics Summit & Expo its improved magnetic interference compensation and uSkin in the Universal Manipulation Interface.

Nexera Robotics’ adaptive NeuraGrasp will enable the Locus Array mobile manipulator to pick many more e-commerce SKUs.

To be used in industrial applications, humanoid robots must meet application-relevant criteria. Fraunhofer IPA has developed a benchmark for third-party analysis.

Genesis AI says its GENE-26.5 foundation model uses an advanced data engine and a proprietary robotic hand for new levels of dexterity.

In testing robotic systems, developers can fail and learn, as long as they control risk, explains Bullen Ultrasonics’ research and early innovation manager.

Sanctuary AI said its robotic hand and AI system achieved the target orientation 10 times in a row without dropping the cube.

As humanoid robotics approach commercialization, developers are still working to improve navigation, manipulation, and skills learning.

Tesollo demonstrated its DG-3F-M articulated gripper with Techman’s TM5S cobot arm for tasks such as bin picking and assembly.

Tesollo said its DG-5F-S robotic hand supports precise grasping and manipulation motions required for humanoid robots.

Bastian Solutions needed rugged and reliable bearings for its warehousing robot to load trucks, so it turned to igus motion plastics.

OnRobot and FANUC will demonstrate common applications for automation to help manufacturers in North Texas.

Robotiq says it has combined adaptive gripping with high-frequency tactile sensing, enabling robots to generalize across objects.

Fluid robot motion is the result of design choices among five options including pneumatics and strain wave gears.

TESOLLO said the technology it developed in house enables a smaller and lighter 20-DoF robot hand.

In a 60 Minutes segment, Boston Dynamics provided a glimpse at how its Atlas humanoid is becoming more capable.

Chef Robotics unveiled Chef+, an advanced AI robot with doubled capacity and a new automated meal flattening tool.

iREX 2025 included Japanese and Chinese innovations and partnerships, as well as physical AI advances, says this strategic analysis.

Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.