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qb SoftHand Industry

About

About qb SoftHand Industry

qb SoftHand Industry is a five-finger anthropomorphic gripper driven through a single motor and a tendon-based synergy. Nineteen compliant finger joints adapt passively around the shape of an object, allowing the hand to form power and precision grasps without commanding every joint independently.

Dislocatable, self-restoring joints and elastic mechanics tolerate impacts and positioning error during operation around people. The hand is supplied with industrial mounting, control and communication options and is available through certified integrations for robot brands including Universal Robots and Doosan. Applications include handling irregular products, collaborative assembly and research transferred into production cells.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Compliant grasping, Robotic grasping, Adaptive grasping
  • Workflows: End-effector manipulation, Material handling
  • Operating environments: Industrial automation, collaborative robots, testing, quality inspection, pick-and-place and machine tending
  • Target markets: Integrators needing soft adaptive grasping with clearer industrial certifications and robot-brand compatibility.
  • Deployment model: Commercial adaptive hand for industrial manipulation and robot end-effector integration.
  • Robotic grasping

    Claimed - qbrobotics lists pick-and-place, complex handling, assembly, machine tending, testing and quality inspection for qb SoftHand Industry.

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  • Pick and place

    Claimed - qbrobotics lists pick-and-place, complex handling, assembly, machine tending, testing and quality inspection for qb SoftHand Industry.

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  • Robotic assembly

    Claimed - qbrobotics lists pick-and-place, complex handling, assembly, machine tending, testing and quality inspection for qb SoftHand Industry.

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  • Machine tending

    Claimed - qbrobotics lists pick-and-place, complex handling, assembly, machine tending, testing and quality inspection for qb SoftHand Industry.

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  • Robotic inspection

    Claimed - qbrobotics lists pick-and-place, complex handling, assembly, machine tending, testing and quality inspection for qb SoftHand Industry.

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Research

  • The qb SoftHand Industry: a Collaborative Robotic Hand for the Industry

    2021-06-23 - Research Publication - The qbrobotics-authored conference paper presents the qb SoftHand Industry as a compliant anthropomorphic hand engineered for industrial and collaborative tasks. It documents the product's soft-robotics architecture, industrial compatibility and safety-oriented interaction design.

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Timeline

  • qb SoftHand Industry obtained UR+ certification

    2019-08-01 - Regulatory - The company described qb SoftHand Industry as an anthropomorphic robotic hand for industrial tasks. The UR+ certification supported plug-and-play use with Universal Robots cobots. qbrobotics linked the milestone to a collaboration with Universal Robots that began with qb SoftHand Research in the UR+ ecosystem.

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Context

Market context

Industrial version of qbrobotics' soft anthropomorphic hand, positioned as a collaborative gripper for cobots and testing automation.

  • Target environment: Industrial automation, collaborative robots, testing, quality inspection, pick-and-place and machine tending
  • Workflow context: Human-like compliant grasping in industrial/cobot workflows
  • Customer context: Integrators needing soft adaptive grasping with clearer industrial certifications and robot-brand compatibility.
  • Deployment model: Commercial adaptive hand for industrial manipulation and robot end-effector integration.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product page with standards/approvals listed by qbrobotics; final qualification should be checked against the exact deployment.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on payload, IP requirements, safety validation, robot-controller compatibility and accessory selection.
  • Adjacent products: qb SoftHand Research, qb SoftHand2 Research, Prensilia Mia Hand, SCHUNK SVH

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