HGDS grippers from Festo Corp., Hauppauge, N.Y. (www.festo.com), use a semirotary vane actuator to control a parallel gripper, letting the compact unit grip and turn. There are three sizes and maximum ...
A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) has developed a gripper called GRIP-Tape (Grasping and Rolling In-Plane – GRIP), which can also grip and rotate delicate ...
Modern robotics and their grippers (a subtype of end-of-arm tooling or end effectors) are similar to human hands in that they use integrated mechanisms and controls. Photo courtesy Schunk. What is a ...