Engineered different. From the mechanism up.
Angular grippers have advantages. Parallel grippers have advantages. SusGrip is a new hybrid gripper that has both.
Built Different. Work Differently.
A new hybrid gripper class - where the mechanism, the intelligence, and the safety are not features. They are the design.
01
Scott-Russell + four-bar parallelogram - a patented hybrid, a new gripper class
SusGrip combines two classical mechanisms - taking the large stroke range of angular grippers and the parallel jaw precision of parallel grippers, and leaving out what made each one a compromise.
Stroke Range
Body Size
Contact Point
Pinch Point
Angular gripper
Parallel gripper
SusGrip Gripper
Large stroke range
Limited stroke range
Large stroke range
Compact body
Bulky body for stroke
Compact body
Angular contact shift
Stable, flat contact
Stable, flat contact
Pinch point at cross
No pinch point
No pinch point
02
Absolute encoder - built into every unit
Jaw position retained across power-offs, e-stops, and collisions. No homing routine required.
Architecturally required for humanoid and mobile manipulator deployment - platforms where stopping to calibrate is not an option.
03
No crossing geometry - no pinch point can exist
No pinch point - the hazard is eliminated by the mechanism, not suppressed by firmware.
Designed for cobots and humanoids working alongside people - no guarding required, no firmware to fail.
More Stroke than Body Length
The hybrid design packs more jaw travel than the body is long - a ratio no comparable parallel gripper achieves.
BEFORE & AFTER
As a new hybrid gripper class, SusGrip resolves the trade-offs that define every conventional gripper.
Typical gripper
Stroke limited by body size
Contact point shifts with jaw position
Needs calibration on startup
Pinch point at arm crossing
SusGrip gripper
Stroke exceeds body - 1.12× by design
Fixed contact geometry - any position, any part
Absolute encoder - wake up and go
No crossing geometry - hazard doesn't exist
High-Mix Machine Tending - One Gripper For 43 SKUs
The Challenge
High-mix CNC machine tending for load-bearing cover components - 43 part variants, ranging from Ø25 to 157 mm in diameter. Too many variants to automate with pneumatic tooling, the line ran on manual labor - handling oily, slippery parts by hand, continuously.
Apicoo's Solution
Apicoo automated the line with 4 SusGrip-3F units, replacing manual handling entirely.
SusGrip-3F is a parallel concentric, 3-finger electric gripper with a 10-150 mm stroke range, 5 kg payload, and 160 N gripping force. Its stroke and gripping force are software-defined rather than fixed by hardware.
Ready to see SusGrip on your robot?
Talk to our applications team. We'll specify the right gripper for your platform and part family - and get you running in days, not months.