Cobot Grippers: Types, Applications and How to Choose One
You’ve got a cobot on the floor. The arm moves where you need it. The program runs clean. Then someone asks you to pick up a foam gasket, a steel hex bolt, and a raw PCB, on the same shift. Suddenly the gripper you ordered “because it looked standard” is the entire problem. Gripper selection […]
Electric Robot Grippers: How They Work and When to Use Them
You’ve got a cobot arm on order and now someone’s asking which gripper you want. You type “robot gripper” into a search bar and immediately run into a wall of vague marketing copy that tells you absolutely nothing useful. Pneumatic or electric? Two-finger or three? What’s the grip force you actually need? Electric grippers get […]
What Is a Robot End Effector? Types, Uses and How to Choose One
You’ve specced out the robot arm. You’ve mapped the reach envelope, confirmed the payload, and priced out the cell. Then someone asks, “What’s on the end of it?” and suddenly there’s a two-week delay while everyone figures out the tooling. End effectors are the part of the system that actually touches the work. They determine […]