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About 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. Founded in 2011 as a spin-off of the University of Pisa and the Italian Institute of Technology, the company works in three business units. Its industrial unit supplies soft end-effectors for collaborative robots, including the qb SoftHand Industry and the qb SoftClaw variable-stiffness gripper, aimed at handling fragile or irregularly shaped items in food, agriculture and general manufacturing. Its service-robotics unit supplies anthropomorphic hands such as the qb SoftHand Research and qb SoftHand2 Research — five-fingered, 19-phalanx hands driven by a single motor — to research institutes, universities and humanoid robot builders, along with qbmove modular variable-stiffness actuators for building robots.

A third, biomedical unit develops upper-limb prostheses derived from the same hand technology. Products are designed to be plug-and-play with major collaborative robot brands and are distributed internationally, including through the Universal Robots UR+ ecosystem. All development, laboratory testing, software and hardware production takes place in-house at the company’s site in the Pisa technology district. For buyers, qbrobotics is a specialist source of adaptive soft end-effectors where rigid grippers struggle with delicate or variable parts.

Products & services

• qb SoftHand Industry and qb SoftHand+ — anthropomorphic soft robotic hands for industrial handling tasks
• qb SoftHand Research and qb SoftHand2 Research — five-finger research hands for universities, laboratories and humanoid robots
• qb SoftClaw — compact variable-stiffness gripper for collaborative robots
• qbmove Advanced — modular variable-stiffness actuators for robot building
• Upper-limb prosthetic hands developed under the biomedical business unit

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