End Effectors / Grippers

The gripper can pack manufactured components with three fingers, place them in boxes and place a layer of protective cardboard over them.

The MAXXgrip is robot vendor independent and can be deployed on any industrial robot or cobot. The articulating fingers stabilize items during pick and place operations.

The committee will initially develop standards for the performance of grasping-type end effectors, mobile manipulators and robotic assembly systems.

Amazon said preliminary tests show a prototype pinch-grasping robot achieved a 10-fold reduction in damage on items such as books and boxes.

The new tool can design a 3D-printable passive gripper and calculate the best path to pick up an object.

Florian Pestoni says “necrobotics” is where ethics and technology must meet. Just because it can be done, it doesn’t mean we should.

A Rice University research lab manipulates dead spiders’ legs with a puff of air to turn the spider into a gripper.

Researchers at the MIT developed a system that can help robots retrieve target items from a pile of items with some RFID tags. 

Soft Robotics plans to make its mGripAI solution available for order fulfillment, sortation, decanting and kitting. 

CSAIL’s Perceptual Science Group created touch sensors for their gripper, allowing it to feel with the same sensitivity as human skin. 

Odense Robotics’ 300 members, made up of robot, automation and drone companies, nominated and voted for the winners.

Box manufacturer Alliora had wanted to add automation to its production lines for a while. Unfortunately, its first experience was difficult.

Pharm Robotics is bringing the first autonomous dairy cow inoculation solution to market, using industrial robots to inject pharmaceuticals.

Festo, a Magswitch distribution partner since 2019, reports surging interest in the E-Series of intelligent magnetic grippers from Magswitch.

A research team from five different universities developed robotic grippers inspired by insects that are able to handle delicate objects.

FarmHand’s four, multi-jointed fingers resemble human hands, but the ends of the fingers are covered in gecko-inspired adhesives

ATI’s QC-29 Robotic Tool Changer is designed for robots in the 25 – 35 kg payload class. It’s the first standard ATI Tool Changer designed with a rectangular body that mounts directly to 40mm and 50mm robot wrists.

MIT’s researchers have taught a simulated robotic hand to manipulate objects with one hand facing upwards and downwards.

Wavemaker portfolio company Future Acres is exploring how to leverage some of the IP to enhance its Carry mobile robot.

The ATX West show is next week. Check out our show guide with a curated list of robotic vendors to visit while at the show.

ATI Industrial Automation established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) plan in 2012. The federally-qualified ERISA benefit plan makes employees owners in the company.

Guided by a set program that autonomously switched between off, low, medium, and high pressures, the robotic hand was able to press the buttons on the controller to successfully complete the first level of Super Mario Bros. in less than 90 seconds.