A Brief Review on Robotic Grippers Classifications

Manipulators are used for various applications to make tasks easier or decrease the risk of tasks deemed impossible, dangerous or difficult for humans. A robotic manipulator can be equipped with different types of end effectors to perform diverse tasks. Grippers are one of the most commonly-used robot end of arm tools. Depending on the application in hand for the robotic system, various types of grippers are needed. Therefore, selecting the proper one is a significantly important aspect in the design process. To the best knowledge of the authors, there are not enough scholarly research papers focusing on classification for robot grippers. In this paper, a brief review on different categories of grippers are presented. The goal of this paper is to provide a brief informational summary on different classifications, since proper selection of gripper plays a vital role in robot manipulator's efficiency and performance.