Smart softie
Bionic gripper. Festo has developed the pneumatic robotic hand Bionic Soft Hand. Combined with the Bionic Soft Arm, a pneumatic lightweight robot, the Future Concepts are suitable for human-robot collaboration.
read more...read more...Gripper teaches itself to grip
Autonomous gripping. While gripping processes have primarily been geared towards high productivity and process reliability to date, flexibility is also coming into focus in conjunction with the smart factory. In the future, grippers will enable flexible operations through to autonomous handling scenarios.
read more...OnRobot opens first German branch
OnRobot has opened its first office in Germany. With the branch in Soest, North Rhine-Westphalia, the new General Manager Björn Milsch is expanding the company's presence in the DACH and Benelux markets.
read more...Schunk invests 85 million in its locations
Schunk is investing around 85 million euros in the Brackenheim-Hausen, Mengen, St. Georgen and Morrisville/USA sites by mid-2020, with around 42,000 square meters of additional production and administration space being created.
read more...Six axles for reaching into the box
Reliable gripping without having to determine the exact position and orientation of the gripped object beforehand - the Schunk AGE-U universal compensation unit now makes it possible for robots to do what humans do every day.
read more...Flexible cobot for small businesses
With the Kenos KCS gripper from Piab, it is possible to create a collaborative robot that can handle practically anything, anywhere and at any time. According to the manufacturer, this makes it the ideal tool for collaboration, especially for small companies.
read more...Handling modules in the "Mixmaster"
Closures in three-second cycles
Illumina is one of the leading developers, manufacturers and distributors of DNA sequencers for genetic analysis. The company was looking for a system for its branch in San Diego that closes DNA sample vials as efficiently, quickly and automatically as possible. Illumina opted for a seven-axis gantry system consisting largely of Afag modules.
read more...Smart small parts gripper holds the power
The intelligent parallel gripper Schunk EGI with certified Profinet-IRT interface was specifically designed for demanding and multi-variant handling tasks in electronics, pharmaceutical and laboratory applications.
read more...Large lifting gripper Co-act EGL-C
Up to the next weight class
At the Hannover Messe, Schunk opened a new chapter in human-robot collaboration (HRC): The EGL-C large stroke gripper will be the first large stroke gripper certified for collaborative applications that leaves the league of small parts handling and can safely handle workpieces weighing up to 2.25 kilograms.
read more...Criteria for selecting the right gripper
Gripper - depending on!
Every automated production system is only as efficient and reliable as its weakest link. To ensure that the gripper is not the weakest link, the user must pay attention to the correct specification of the gripper, taking into account the operating environment.
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