B25J 15/08
Gripping heads and other end effectors: having finger members
Official title: having finger members (B25J15/02, B25J15/04 take precedence)
B25J15/08 (Gripping heads and other end effectors: having finger members) appears on 1,250 US grants and 1,523 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 1,523
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- 785
- Inventors
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2025 | 92 | 126 |
| 2026 | 105 | 100 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Gripper with bendable fingers and switching means6 Oct 2026US 12,752,440 B2KUKA Deutschland GmbH
- Seafood processing system and related methods29 Sep 2026US 12,745,780 B2
- Suction assist multi-functional robotic end effector22 Sep 2026US 12,741,387 B2Palladyne Corp.
- Teleoperated finger gaiting skill via gaussian process residual learning15 Sep 2026US 12,734,697 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Gripper and robot15 Sep 2026US 12,734,712 B2Flexiv Ltd.
- Gripper for moving piece goods and methods for moving piece goods using the gripper1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295865 A1Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbH
- Object placing via a mobile robot including nudging and related technology24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284881 A1
- Electronic device24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284905 A1Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
- Gripper, gripping system, and use of a gripper24 Sep 2026US 2026/0286676 A1BODUS GmbH
- Gripping device17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273776 A1Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Most cited
By later US patents
- Articulatable members having constrained motion and related devices and methods500US 11,109,925 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2021
- Flexible positioning appendage303US 5,297,443 A1994
- Robotic arm systems174US 4,954,952 ATRW Inc. · 1990
- Torus-shaped mechanical gripper158US 6,846,029 B12005
- Robotic containerization and palletizing system149US 6,579,053 B1ABB Flexible Automation, Inc. · 2003