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Volume 8, Issue 2
1 February 1988
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Assembly Automation
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Review Article| February 01 1988

Flexible fingers can solve gripper sensitivity problems Available to Purchase

C.T. Irwin
C.T. Irwin
Lord Corporation, Industrial Automation Division, Cary, NC, USA
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 1758-4078
Print ISSN: 0144-5154
© MCB UP Limited
1988
Assembly Automation (1988) 8 (2): 87–90.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb004238

FLEXIBILITY has always been associated with robotic systems. However, once a robot has been integrated into an application, the robot is no longer flexible but becomes a part of the tooling. This loss of flexibility is attributed to the use of rigid, costly tooling, which includes end effector tooling.

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