End Effectors / Grippers

Properly integrated industrial and collaborative robots can help midmarket manufacturers, according to a columnist.

Last month, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of RoboBusiness, whic is being rebranded to Robotics Summit & Expo West.

Robotic animals are designed to be helpful rather than scary, showing promise in disaster recovery, utility inspection, and companionship.

The 2026 Robotics Handbook examines design choices behind dexterous manipulation, humanoid robots, and construction automation.

AGIBOT unveiled its AHA3 integrated platform, GO-3 Preview, and WITA-Omni 1.0 model, as well as the G2 Max robot and Link-U OS 1.0 framework.

Eka Robotics is building a vision-force-action, or VFA, model to develop an intuition of physics through reinforcement learning at scale.

The next major challenge in robotic dexterity is making the entire system reliable enough to turn capabilities into useful work.

How better data and human judgment can help robots move beyond demos toward reliable real-world performance.

Flourish is releasing a $3,555 phone-trainable home robot, targeting busy parents with personalized, cloud-trained chore automation.

Epson Robots has expanded its six-axis robot line with the AX6, a lightweight force- and power-limited arm.

This is the last major test of the system before Icarus Robotics will be sending JOY the the ISS in early 2027.

From first contact through surface deformation, load distribution, and final stable hold, pressure sensors can improve robotic bin picking.

Rajat Bhageria, the founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, will explore what makes food such a demanding benchmark for physical AI.

Physical AI depends on smarter grippers to give robots the dexterity, sensing and adaptability needed to handle real-world tasks.

Locus Robotics recently acquired Nexera Robotics, which create unique soft picking technology, bolstering its manipulation capabilities.

Automotive suppliers Unichem and R&Y are working with Loomia to develop tactile sensors for automotive and robotics applications.

Research around the Universal Manipulation Interface is enabling Generalist, Walden Robotics, and others to turn data into robot behaviors.

Researchers created the BioflexBot, a novel robot that mimics and even exceeds core motions of the hand with a simple design.

Tacta Systems unveiled a three-part system, including its robotic hand, that enables users to teach its robot new dexterous skills.

Gemini Robotics 2 enables robots to reason through every movement, unlocking a broad range of tasks, DeepMind said.

By training GEN-1 to work with new hands, Generalist said a single base model can learn sensorimotor policies on different robots.

Deploying world models in real robotic systems requires a step that receives less attention than the models themselves: conditioning.