With the 50 WSG Weiss Robotics brings the first of a new generation of high-tech electrical grippers on the market. In addition to Profibus DP, CAN and RS232, the WSG 50 is the first gripper having a built-in Ethernet TCP/IP interface. Using a standard Web browser, the WSG 50 can be setup in a comfortable and easy way. The installation of additional software is not required.

The safe handling of objects with only partially known geometry is a major challenge for today's service robotics. Reactive approaches are particularly promising here, where the finger position is continuosly adjusted during grasping, based on the contact information to the gripping part.

It is not a rare scenario that the implementation of an experimental setup will take the lion's share of a research project to complete. Often, data acquisition and framework are needlessly developed from scratch. This ties up resources unnecessarily, and will hold the researcher from his research.