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Piab, headquartered in Danderyd, Sweden and founded in 1951, is a vacuum automation company whose gripping, lifting and moving technology is used in robot cells and automated production lines, with more than 1,000 employees across Piab Group and customers in more than 100 countries across logistics, food, pharmaceuticals, automotive and packaging. Buyers compare end-of-arm tooling suppliers because vacuum gripping, soft-robotics hands, servo-electric grippers and bionic hands hold very different parts in very different ways. qbrobotics, headquartered in Cascina, Pisa, Italy and founded in 2011 as a university spin-off, designs soft-robotics hands, grippers and variable-stiffness actuators based on soft synergies, with about 25 employees serving research institutes, universities and industrial customers worldwide. Schmalz, headquartered in Glatten, Germany and founded in 1910, specialises in vacuum automation and robotic gripping systems, with around 1,800 employees at 31 locations and sales in around 70 countries. WEISS Robotics, headquartered in Ludwigsburg, Germany and founded in 2008, develops mechatronic servo-electric gripping systems and gripping sensing, selling worldwide with a strong base in the German domestic market. Alt-Bionics makes modular bionic hands for two markets, the Genesis myoelectric prosthetic hand for people and the Surge robotic hand for humanoid and robot-arm platforms; its profile records no headquarters, country or founding year. Choose Piab for vacuum gripping, lifting and moving, qbrobotics for soft-robotics hands and actuators, Schmalz for vacuum gripping systems, WEISS Robotics for servo-electric grippers, and Alt-Bionics for modular bionic hands.

Alternatives to Piab

qbrobotics

qbrobotics is an Italian soft-robotics company that designs and manufactures robotic hands, grippers and variable-stiffness actuators based on the principle of soft synergies — the same underactuated, tendon-driven logic that makes a human hand adapt its shape to whatever it grasps.