qb SoftHand Industry Context

Market context

Industrial version of qbrobotics' soft anthropomorphic hand, positioned as a collaborative gripper for cobots and testing automation.

  • Target environment: Industrial automation, collaborative robots, testing, quality inspection, pick-and-place and machine tending
  • Workflow context: Human-like compliant grasping in industrial/cobot workflows
  • Customer context: Integrators needing soft adaptive grasping with clearer industrial certifications and robot-brand compatibility.
  • Deployment model: Commercial adaptive hand for industrial manipulation and robot end-effector integration.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product page with standards/approvals listed by qbrobotics; final qualification should be checked against the exact deployment.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload, IP requirements, safety validation, robot-controller compatibility and accessory selection.
  • Adjacent products: qb SoftHand Research, qb SoftHand2 Research, Prensilia Mia Hand, SCHUNK SVH

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Human-like compliant grasping in industrial/cobot workflows

Deployment environment

Industrial automation, collaborative robots, testing, quality inspection, pick-and-place and machine tending

Specifications

  • Degrees Of Freedom: 19 anthropomorphic DoF
  • actuation and motion control: One synergy, one motor
  • Power Grasp Payload: 2 kg
  • Pinch Grasp Payload: 0.6 kg
  • Full Closing Time: 1.2 s
  • Communication: EtherCAT, UDP
  • Ingress Protection: IP65
  • Software: ROS and ROS2 compatible
  • Certifications And Approvals: Collaborative gripper; UR+ Approved; listed by qbrobotics with industrial/collaborative robotics standards
  • Weight: 0.99 kg

Tags

  • Peer Group: Soft grippers, Soft robotic hand, Soft grippers
  • Workflow: End-effector manipulation, Material handling
  • Capability: Compliant grasping, Robotic grasping, Adaptive grasping, Soft grasping
  • Stack Layer: Manipulation stack

Comparable Systems

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