Pick-and-Place Grippers | McMaster-Carr

The needles on these grippers grab hold of flexible and porous items that are difficult for vacuum cups and magnetic grippers to grasp, such as fabric, foam, glass and metal fiber, and carpet.

Air-Powered Rotary Grippers

These grippers pick up a product and turn it 180° before releasing.

Air-Powered Magnetic Grippers

Connect these magnetic grippers to an air system to lift odd-shaped and perforated metal parts that often cause traditional vacuum cups to lose hold.

Electric-Powered Grippers

Unlike air-powered grippers, which leak air, these electric grippers won’t release dirt or particulates, making them good for pick-and-place assembly, packaging, and finishing jobs in labs, electronics plants, and other clean environments. Often used with mobile robots, all have a servomotor that opens and closes the grippers with equal force.

Electric-Powered Grippers without Motor

For applications without access to compressed air, such as mobile robots, these grippers use electricity to perform highly accurate pick and place tasks including assembly, finishing, and packaging.

Robot-Ready Electric Grippers

Including a robot tool mount and electrical connectors, these grippers come ready to attach to robot arms with standard ISO 50 mounting hole patterns. Good for areas without compressed air, they use electricity to pick and place items in packaging, assembly, and machine-tending applications.

Robot-Ready Electric Soft Grippers

Mimicking a human hand, these grippers have soft, flexible silicone fingers that curl around items to pick them up.

Ready-to-Use Gripper Fingers

Simply connect these fingers to your Schunk gripper and start moving items.

Flexible Gripper Fingers

Grab differently sized and shaped objects without changing out gripper fingers in between.

Gripper Finger Blanks

These finger blanks come ready to mount to SMC or Schunk grippers, so you can make custom fingers without starting from scratch. Just machine the blank’s gripping end to create fingers that will securely grip your specific parts.