This project deals with design and development of an advanced multi-fingered gripper designed by using Pro- E and ANSYS. The only thing left for researchers in this fields of design is to come up with designs that allow for very high flexibility of the automation process for the robots used in the industrial process. Designs already in the market include the IFLASH, DLR-Hand and the Karlssruhr Hand (J. Designers have been able to transfer the functions of the human hand with great success to the root’s gripper in major aspects such as flexibility and coordination with the rest of the parts of the robot.

These robots required grippers as their means of holding onto objects just like the human hand. Also, with the advent of modern technology in the manufacturing process, bulk production which requires a repetitive process to be carried out all the time and also the manufacture of very heavy loads necessitated the design of robots to carry out these tasks thus replacing the human hand that was fragile and fatigued very fast. The industrial processes requiring such tasks to be carried out in a versatile manner and in unpredictable and adverse conditions may not fully utilize the human hand which until te 60’s was the only tool available to carry such tasks.

A gripper is a tooling used in a robot for grasping, holding, controlling and moving materials.

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