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Manipulation
Grippers
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Parallel and adaptive grippers for industrial pick-and-place workflows.
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Popularity
- Not available
- Robots Using
- 33
- Companies Using
- 14
- First Introduced
- 2009
- Status
- Mature
- Category
- Manipulation
- Countries
- 8
What is Grippers?
Grippers is a core capability in modern robotics — Parallel and adaptive grippers for industrial pick-and-place workflows.
Engineering teams integrate grippers into perception, planning, or control pipelines depending on the platform and task.
Grippers is linked to 32 robots and 14 companies in the current RoboDex archive.
Advantages
- Widely documented across the Manipulation stack
- Connects naturally to neighboring technologies
- Supports commercial and research deployments
Limitations
- Integration cost varies by platform
- Performance depends on sensors and compute
- Standards and tooling continue to evolve
Future outlook
Grippers continues to deepen as robotics moves toward more autonomous, general-purpose systems.
Key concepts
Core idea
Parallel and adaptive grippers for industrial pick-and-place workflows.
In the stack
Usually appears alongside end effectors and force sensors.
Difficulty
Beginner — expect practical engineering depth.
Category
Filed under Manipulation in the RoboDex library.
Robots
Browse robots Robots using Grippers
12 linked in the current archive.
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How Grippers evolved
- 1969
Foundations
Early research lays groundwork for what becomes Grippers.
- 1997
Laboratory systems
Prototypes prove the concept in controlled environments.
- 2009
Archive milestone
Grippers reaches broad visibility in commercial and research robots.
- 2024+
Modern deployments
Production fleets and humanoids adopt refined variants at scale.
- 2026
Next wave
Tighter coupling with AI, simulation, and full-stack autonomy.
Real-world use
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Pick, sort, and move inventory with perception-aware autonomy.
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Fast facts
Robots Using
33
Companies
14
Countries
8
Research Papers
Not available
Commercial Since
2009
Popularity
Not available
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