Talk:End effector

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This page needs to be lengthened / improved. There should be a discussion of the differences between industrial end effectors and robot hands. (Possibly split robot hands into another page).

A listing of the general types of industrial robot end effectors is necessary: welders, grinders, deburrers, graspers, palletizers, etc. Also note that despite a standard interface on the robot side, these end effectors are typically custom made at great cost to suit the exact purpose of the robot.

A listing of the different types of robot hands is also necessary: parallel jaw, barrett, human-like... http://www1.cs.columbia.edu/~amiller/graspit/ is a good reference.

I think End effector should become a disambig page, and there should be separate pages for each topic: