Various grippers ready for immediate use
Click-Smart technology. The Click-Smart plate on Sawyer's wrist recognizes a new gripping tool and automatically makes the necessary configurations.
read more...read more...Dealing with deformable objects
Interdisciplinary research project "Soft Tissue Robotics". Researchers are working on a multi-body system approach for the automated handling of soft components.
read more...Flexible without edges
For cobots to be successful, they must be versatile and easy to handle. End-of-arm tools play a key role; the tool is particularly important when it comes to handing over parts for processing by humans.
read more...Cobot with vacuum
Piab enters the collaborative robot market with the Picobot, a plug-and-play extension of the Cobot arm with Piab's vacuum technology.
read more...ATEX-certified gripper
Schunk now offers the PGN-plus-P grippers as an ATEX version for use in potentially explosive environments. In addition, all sizes are also available as dust-tight versions and corresponding retrofit kits.
read more...Gripper jaws are technical fingertips
Gripper jaws are the part of a clamping gripper that makes direct stereomechanical contact with the gripped object. However, it is often not just clamping, but a combination of force and shape pairing.
read more...Teamwork is the order of the day
Schunk Electronic Solutions shows how depaneling machines for the electronics industry can be made collaborative. A six-axis UR5 robot arm equipped with a Co-act-EGP-C gripper is integrated into a SAR 1700 depaneling system.
read more...Leantechnik positioning system
Different variants on one line
Leantechnik has developed the AFP modular system, with which different variants of a product can be produced economically on a single production line. The system was commissioned by a customer from the automotive industry.
read more...Mechatronic grippers with IO-Link
Complete control desired
Gimatic has started to equip its grippers with the IO-Link communication standard. The new developments include a servo gripper series.
read more...85 participants discuss assembly concepts of the future
For the first time, the Modern Assembly Congress took place parallel to Motek and was very popular. 85 participants learned about the latest assembly technology and discussed future trends such as exoskeletons, human-robot collaboration, TSN and OPC UA.
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