Pick up and move items with suction, powered entirely by electricity from your robot. These lifters can grip everything from cardboard boxes to bags of screws. With soft rubber cups, they’re less likely than grippers to damage delicate items. Lifters come with flat and single-bellows cups. The flat cup works well with smooth, flat surfaces, such as the top of boxes. The single-bellows cup firmly holds tilted items or items of different heights. You can also use your own vacuum cup if it has a 1/4 BSPP threaded connection. These lifters achieve their maximum weight capacity only when handling items with smooth, nonporous surfaces, such as glass or sheet metal.

An integrated vacuum switch tells your robot when an item is picked up, so it knows when to move to the next location. Use the arrow keys on the lifter's body to raise or lower the vacuum level. They come with mounts to attach them to the robot and cords for power and control signals.

Choose grippers for high-speed picking—they pick up items faster than vacuum lifters. They’re also best for handling items with rough, uneven surfaces. The jaws of these grippers open and close like elevator doors. As the jaws open, they can grasp hollow or open-ended items, such as a tube, from the inside. As the jaws close, they can grasp solid items, such as a metal block, from the outside. Gripping force is adjustable—use it at full force or choose a reduced level with a selector on the body of the gripper. Grippers come with mounts to attach them to the robot and cords for power and control signals. They’re powered entirely by electricity from your robot. You’ll also need fingers (sold separately).

Even though the robot arms can’t rotate, you can add these grippers to pick up items and turn them clockwise and counterclockwise. The jaws of these grippers open and close like elevator doors. As the jaws open, they can grasp hollow or open-ended items, such as a tube, from the inside. As the jaws close, they can grasp solid items, such as a metal block, from the outside. You can choose both your grip force setting and rotation speed. Physical stops limit how far the gripper can rotate for precise positioning. Grippers come with mounts to attach them to the robot and cords for power and control signals. They’re powered entirely by electricity from your robot. You’ll also need fingers (sold separately).

Program basic machine vision tasks to help your robot sort objects by color, shape, and other visual features. Once this camera identifies the part, your robot control software can locate its position and tell your robot to pick and place it. Use the included mounting bracket to attach the camera to flat surfaces or T-slotted framing. The bracket pivots, so you can move the camera where you need it. This camera plugs directly into the USB port on your controller.