Festo says its new HPSX soft gripper is designed to solve long-standing challenges in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics.

This hygienic soft gripper will revolutionize workflows in the food, pharmaceutica, and cosmetic industries.

Cobots need grippers on their arms to grab and move things. Grippers come in different types, like air-powered, electric, vacuum and magnetic ones. Each type has its own strengths and weaknesses, and ...

Hi, I'm Jenny Strong with Schmalz Vaccum Automation. We are here to discuss the mGrip finger gripper. It is a modular end-of-arm tool designed for food or non-food applications. In this particular ...

Robots come in a variety of shapes, sizes and speeds. But, whether it’s a cartesian, cobot, delta, SCARA or six-axis machine, they all share one thing in common: end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT). Grippers, ...

Brennan Burns, an automation engineer at Shunk CoLab in North Carolina, gave Machine Design quick demo of automated machine tending at MD&M West 2025. He focused on the Schunk Gripper PGN-plus-P to ...

[Tazer] built a small desktop-sized robotic arm, and it was more or less functional. However, he wanted to improve its ability to pick things up, and attaching a pneumatic gripper seemed like the ...

Steel measuring tape is an interesting material, in that it's rigid enough to hold its shape when extended, but flexible enough that it gives way under pressure. Scientists have taken advantage of ...

Albuquerque, New Mexico-based El Pinto Foods operates a restaurant and manufacturing operations, where it provides co-packing and private labeling services. The company offers a range of products, ...

(A) FEA-based numerical simulation to optimize the actuator’s geometry and actuation parameters. (B) Using FFF technology, the molds are printed in rigid material and the sacrificial cores are in a ...

Researchers at MIT CSAIL have created a new soft robotic system, RoboGrocery that uses vision technology and soft tactile sensors to determine how to pack an item without damage. Researchers from ...