Adaptive robot gripper options
Hello everyone,
I'm currently working on a project picking bottles of different sizes from a shelf. For this purpose, I need an adaptive robot gripper. However, besides Robotiq, I can't find many gripper manufacturers.
Currently, I use the Robotiq Hand-E with custom fingers, but I need to modify the bottles for this work.
What I need:
- Gripper for grasping round and cubic objects (bottles)
- The bottle diameter is usually 50-100mm
- Ideally electric
- controlled via Modbus or I/O
- Payload up to 2-2.5kg
What I have found so far:
- Robotiq 2F-140 adaptive gripper - best solution, very pricey
- Festo Fin-Ray Effect Fingers + electric parallel gripper - relatively cheap, but no electric parallel grippers from Festo
Are there any other options on the market? And is really everyone using pneumatic grippers? I can't see that happening in an office/bar setting.
Thanks, Alex
You may want to post this on a different forum. ROS Answers may not see the best type of audience for this.
It looks like that. However, I already found a gripper that suits my needs, I will answer my own question shortly.