Two-finger parallel grippers are the most common, making up 85% of the mechanical gripper market. Three-finger designs can handle round objects and perform centering functions. Festo ...

Parallel jaw action simplifies finger design, and force remains the same throughout the stroke — unlike some two-finger angular grippers. The parallel design also offers distinct design options ...

A micro-scale gripper uses a liquid-permeable surface to handle fragile components like chips and thin films without applying ...

In tandem with additive manufacturing, the integration of simulation tools such as Siemens Tecnomatix Process Simulate plays a pivotal role in quantifying the environmental and cost implications of ...

The kirigami-inspired design can turn pages, handle water droplets, as well as achieve a 16,000 payload-to-weight ratio.

Unlike mechanical grippers based on hands, the design of the bag-like effector provides the gripping qualities. In the YouTube video below, ...

The design for the new grippers builds on an earlier generation of flexible, robotic grippers that drew on the art of kirigami, which involves both cutting and folding two-dimensional sheets of ...

By Gareth J. Monkman, Stefan Hesse, Ralf Steinmann, Henrik SchunkISBN: 978-3-527-40619-7 ...