Gripping has an important role in industrial automation and also in human-robot collaboration. Festo offers comprehensive solutions for part picking at the front end of a robot. Whether you choose a mechanical gripper, adaptive gripping, or vacuum gripping - Festo offers a robotic gripper kit specifically designed for the robotic arms of Universal Robots for all these applications. Your advantages of the robotic kit with standard electric gripper is the simple and intuitive installation and commissioning. The gripper is ideal for gripping small to medium sized objects and holds them safe.
Mount the gripper with the provided adapter plate to your robot arm and connect it via the cables to your robot's control. Plug the provided USB flash drive into the hand-held of your robot and install the URCap plug-in. Now you can start programming easily your application. All these steps are described in detail in the Festo manual, too.