September 5, 2012 - ST Robotics announced E Series electric grippers for its R12 five and six-axis articulated robot arms. These grippers utilize miniature precision integrated motor/lead screw drives. Starting at $875, the mini-electric grippers are available OEM with stand-alone micro-controllers for any make of robot, thus eliminating the need, time, and cost for a user to build a customized gripper. The E Series Grippers include the E1 Fulcrum (scissors action) with long fingers and a closing force of 10N. When fully open, these tips are 30mm apart.
The E2 Fulcrum gripper is similar, but has short jaws for the user to attach his own fingers, also with a closing force of 10N. The E3 Parallel gripper has a closing force of 35N with a 6mm stroke; open, 10mm, closed 4mm. These same stroke and jaw sizes offer a direct substitute for SMC’s pneumatic MHZ2-10D.
