OnRobot Soft Gripper manages challenging pick-and-place applications
Source: OnRobot. OnRobot Soft Gripper with a 'S' gripper. The new OnRobot food-grade Soft Gripper is able to pick up a wide array of irregular shapes and delicate items in food and beverage, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals production, as well as manufacturing or packaging. The electric device uses three interchangeable silicon-molded cups in star and four-finger configurations to pick up almost any small object under 2.2 kg with a delicate, precise touch. The Soft Gripper is food-grade certified and unlike traditional vacuum grippers, requires no external air supply. “Our new Soft Gripper is challenging existing solutions for picking hard-to-grasp, delicate and odd-sized items,” says CEO of OnRobot, Enrico Krog Iversen. “Unlike proprietary solutions, the Soft Gripper offers seamless integration with most collaborative robots and light industrial robots through our One System Solution .” The One System Solution provides a unified mechanical and electrical interface b...
