Grippers have become an important part of material handling in industries ranging from electronics manufacturing to automotive assembly. In North America alone, for example, the gripper market is ...

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Festo now delivers the unique DHEB series of bellows grippers to customers in the electronics and light assembly industries. These bellows grippers expand in diameter when actuated by an integral ...

Ahead of this month's Hannover Messe trade show in Germany, Festo's Bionic Learning Network has today previewed a new helium-filled flyer that merges two previous projects into a single future concept ...

MISSISSAUGA — Festo’s growing portfolio of gripper solutions is expanding with the OGVM, a family of vacuum suction cups that makes the handling of heavy oily and dry sheets more dynamic. These ...

Fast and efficient robotic picking and sorting at distribution centers is difficult to achieve given that mixed-product packaging comes in a myriad of shapes, sizes, weights and materials. End-of-arm ...

Automated picking and sorting of mixed packaging is challenging for intralogistics applications. Knowledge of the fundamentals of vacuum gripping can help overcome those challenges, improve throughput ...