qbrobotics
qbrobotics develops adaptive soft grippers and variable-stiffness robotic hands for robot handling workflows. Its qb SoftClaw is a Universal Robots-compatible gripper for secure handling of fragile and varied objects.
Market context
qbrobotics is a useful hand supplier to track because its SoftHand line represents underactuated, compliant manipulation rather than rigid multi-motor dexterous hands.
Facts
- Website: https://qbrobotics.com/
- HQ: Italy
- Segment: End Effectors
Component market context
qbrobotics is a soft-robotic hand and gripper supplier. Its useful distinction is compliant, underactuated grasping rather than rigid high-DoF anthropomorphic actuation.
- Customer context: Research labs, collaborative-robot developers and manipulation integrators.
- Workflow context: Adaptive grasping, safe-contact manipulation, soft end-effector integration and robot-hand research.
- Commercial maturity: Commercial/research product pages for qb SoftHand, qb SoftHand2 Research and qb SoftGripper products.
- Market position: Soft robotic end-effector supplier for research and collaborative manipulation.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload, control needs, durability and whether compliant grasping is desirable for the target workflow.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent to Prensilia, SCHUNK, Shadow Robot and other robotic-hand suppliers, but differentiated by soft underactuation.
- Source confidence: high
Supply chain relationships
- Doosan Robotics - Qb Softhand Industry End Effector Compatibility - qbrobotics supplies qb SoftHand Industry end effectors for Doosan Robotics MATE collaborative robot integrations.
Relationships
- FANUC - Qb Softhand Industry End Effector Compatibility - FANUC CRX materials list qbrobotics qb SoftHand Industry as an anthropomorphic soft-robotic hand end effector for CRX collaborative robots.
- Universal Robots - Qb Softclaw Adaptive Gripper Compatibility - UR Marketplace lists qbrobotics qb SoftClaw as a adaptive gripper for Universal Robots.
Context tags
- End-of-arm tooling - Workflow - Its robotic hands are used as robot end effectors.
- Robotic hands - Capability - qbrobotics develops qb SoftHand robotic hands.
- Soft robotics - Capability - qb SoftHand products are based on soft robotics technology.
- Material handling - Workflow - qbrobotics's robotics products or services are relevant to material handling workflows.
- Collaborative factory automation - Workflow - qbrobotics's robotics products or services are relevant to collaborative factory automation workflows.
- Universal Robots ecosystem - Peer Group - qb SoftHand Industry is listed in the Universal Robots marketplace.
- Adaptive grasping - Capability - qbrobotics's robotics offering includes adaptive grasping capability.
- End effector - Stack Layer - qbrobotics's robotics role maps to the end effector stack layer.
- End-effector supplier - Peer Group - qbrobotics belongs in the end-effector supplier peer group based on its robotics segment and product or workflow focus.
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