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Adaptive Gripper Teaching on ABB Touch Screen Pendant

The Robotiq Adptive Gripper was recently implemented on an ABB robot using an ABB touch screen teach pendant. This project utilizes an ABB robot for a machine tending application with a Robotiq Gripper as the end-of-arm-tooling. Like any integration project, one of the first steps is programming the robot and its end-of-arm. A custom GUI (Graphical User Interface) on the touch screen pendant was created to simplify the usage of the teach pendant as demonstrated in this video:

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Jul 18, 2011 2:45 PM. 1 min read time
 
Adaptive Gripper Teaching on ABB Touch Screen Pendant

The Robotiq Adptive Gripper was recently implemented on an ABB robot using an ABB touch screen teach pendant. This project...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Jul 18, 2011 2:45 PM
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How To Handle Fragile Parts With Robots

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Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Jul 17, 2011 10:03 PM
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Google in Robotics
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Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Jun 10, 2011 10:30 AM
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Since there are little to no established standards for attachment interfaces in the robot industry, many things are to be...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on May 30, 2011 10:45 AM
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Jig-less Robotic Welding How-to

With their accuracy and adjustability robots are up to face new challenges and execute tasks that were not considered possible...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on May 19, 2011 8:53 AM
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The Evolution and Advantages of Jig-less Robotic Welding

Are you having trouble finding welders? Are you wondering how you could take advantage of robots to simplify your fixtures...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on May 18, 2011 5:59 AM
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How we Tested the Robotiq Adaptive Gripper

You might look at the Adaptive Gripper and say, "Nice! But is it rugged enough for what we do here?" Robotiq has put great...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Apr 27, 2011 11:46 PM
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Robotic Kitting

When I was young, I was doing hardwood flooring with my brother. I would prepare the pieces of wood on the floor so he could...

Samuel Bouchard
By Samuel Bouchard
on Apr 21, 2011 11:07 AM
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