What does OnRobot grippers work with?

It works with Universal Robots controllers, Doosan controllers, Omron TM controllers, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, Robotiq force torque sensor, KUKA KR C4, FANUC CRX 10iA.

What should I watch for with OnRobot grippers?

Deepest plugin support is on Universal Robots and Doosan platforms. Compliant designs trade some grip force for safer human interaction. Software updates and new tool features are tied to the OnRobot ecosystem. Quick Changer cabling needs to clear wrist rotation without binding. Vacuum cup selection depends on part surface and porosity. Force thresholds drift as compliant fingertips wear and need periodic recheck. Grip-confirm signals should be validated against actual part-present rather than tool closure alone.

End effectors

OnRobot grippers

Plug-and-play electric and vacuum grippers designed for fast mounting on collaborative and light industrial robot arms.

OnRobot builds the gripper as a plug-and-play unit rather than a component to be integrated. A common mounting interface (the Quick Changer) and a set of software plugins for major cobot brands let a technician swap between electric fingers, vacuum tools, and force-sensing grippers without rewriting the robot program.

The lineup covers two- and three-finger electric grippers, single- and dual-cup vacuum units, a magnetic gripper for sheet metal, and combined gripper-force sensor packages. Everything shares the same cabling and control approach, which is the point of the ecosystem.

In a cobot cell the plug-and-play story is real on Universal Robots, Doosan, Omron TM series, and a few others. The plugin appears as a URCap or equivalent, exposes grip commands as program nodes, and needs almost no I/O mapping. On other brands, integration falls back to standard fieldbus and discrete I/O like any other gripper.

Reach for OnRobot when the cell is a cobot doing frequent changeovers, when the customer wants their own maintenance staff swapping tools without an integrator visit, or when the same payload budget has to cover different part families on the same arm.

Compatibility trade-offs: the deepest software integration is on Universal Robots and Doosan, and other brands get less out of the ecosystem. Compliant designs also give up some grip force compared to a rigid industrial parallel gripper like a comparable Schunk grippers model.

Commissioning pitfalls: dual-cup vacuum arrangements where only one cup seals on a curved part (the URCap reports grip success but the pick actually drops), force thresholds tuned on new fingertips that then drift as the rubber wears, and Quick Changer wiring that binds through a wrist orientation change if the cable routing wasn't planned.

Typical uses: machine tending on a Universal Robots UR10e where the operator swaps between a two-finger gripper and a vacuum tool between shifts, light assembly with a force-sensing gripper, and short-run pick-and-place where changeover time is the constraint.

Related integrations

robotiq 2f gripper

Common questions

What does OnRobot grippers do?: Plug-and-play electric and vacuum grippers designed for fast mounting on collaborative and light industrial robot arms.
What does OnRobot grippers work with?: It works with Universal Robots controllers, Doosan controllers, Omron TM controllers, EtherNet/IP, PROFINET, Robotiq force torque sensor, KUKA KR C4, FANUC CRX 10iA.
What should I watch for with OnRobot grippers?: Deepest plugin support is on Universal Robots and Doosan platforms. Compliant designs trade some grip force for safer human interaction. Software updates and new tool features are tied to the OnRobot ecosystem. Quick Changer cabling needs to clear wrist rotation without binding. Vacuum cup selection depends on part surface and porosity. Force thresholds drift as compliant fingertips wear and need periodic recheck. Grip-confirm signals should be validated against actual part-present rather than tool closure alone.