Hussein Gharakhani and Xin Zhang, both assistant professors in Mississippi State’s Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, are working to develop a robot that can harvest cotton. (Photo ...

OnRobot is helping manufacturers solve production issues by developing grippers and other end effectors that make robots effective. The need for cobots – those robots that work well with humans – was ...

End effectors are devices that are attached to the wrist of a robot. Another name for an end effector is end of arming tool (EOAT). They can act as robot peripheral accessories or devices because they ...

An end effector – or end-of-arm-tooling (EOAT) – is a peripheral device that attaches to a robot’s wrist. The end effector allows the robot to interact with its task. Most end effectors are mechanical ...

Though it’s the robot arms and architecture that get most of the attention, the end effectors (or end-of-arm tooling) is where the action happens…or doesn’t happen if the end effector can’t adapt to ...