The Gripper Revolution under the Rising Call of "Electric Ventilation"——Announcement of the Release of "2022 Electric Gripper Industry Development Blue Book"

As "intelligence" continues to advance, intelligent equipment represented by robots has gradually been integrated into manufacturing, medical, retail and other scenarios. Grippers, as the "fingers" of intelligent equipment, have also shined in the complex downstream industries. With the rapid development of China's 3C electronics, new energy, medical, retail and other industries, traditional grippers have encountered bottlenecks in the refined and efficient production model, and the market demand for high-performance, cost-effective and high-precision grippers has continued to increase.

The application of electric grippers solves the needs for refinement, efficiency and controllability in most production scenarios, while improving product performance and reducing the overall application cost. Since 2016, the call for "electric ventilation" has gradually increased.

In terms of market size and growth rate, China's electric gripper market will see high growth in 2021, driven by demand from downstream manufacturing and medical fields. According to data from Gaogong Robot Industry Research Institute (GGII), China's electric gripper market sales in 2021 reached 31,000 units, a year-on-year increase of 77.14%, and the market size reached 335 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 59.52%.

So, with such a high growth rate, what is the "follow-up force" of the electric gripper industry? Which companies should we focus on? Where will it go in the future?

From December 14 to 16, 2022, the 2022 (9th) Gaogong Robot Annual Conference and Gaogong Golden Globe Awards Ceremony will be held at Shenzhen Metro Crowne Plaza Hotel. During the conference, the "2022 Electric Gripper Industry Development Blue Book" jointly compiled by Gaogong Robot Industry Research Institute (GGII) and Huiling Technology will be released at the conference.

Co-editor Huiling Technology , founded in 2015, is a Xiaomi ecological chain enterprise, committed to "making automation simpler", creating robot products such as end effectors, collaborative robotic arms and intelligent electric cylinders, so that robots are no longer a luxury in the automation industry, and lowering the threshold for automation transformation from multiple dimensions such as cost and ease of use.

The sentence "Only by reducing costs and improving usability can products be used on a large scale and technology become valuable." also fully reveals Huiling Technology's "ambition" in product scale, accessibility and universality.

In order to comprehensively promote the "electric ventilation" reform of grippers and increase the popularity of electric grippers in the industry, Huiling Technology has even reduced the price of two-finger horizontal electric grippers to the hundreds of yuan level, directly breaking the high price situation of electric grippers in the industry.

The electric gripper is Huiling Technology's flagship product. Although Huiling Technology's product categories have been enriched year by year, the electric gripper still has strong expressiveness.

Compared with traditional air grippers, electric grippers can be digitally controlled, conveniently and accurately controlling speed, position and clamping force, and have obvious advantages in some highly flexible and refined operation occasions. At the same time, electric grippers save a series of accessories such as air compressors, solenoid valves, throttle valves, and air pipes, which can effectively simplify automation equipment and can be used in laboratories, medical and other occasions without air sources. It is a new revolutionary product for realizing flexible robot clamping.

Take Huiling EFG series grippers as an example. This series of products is one of the few small electric grippers in China that can integrate a servo system internally. The EFG series electric grippers can meet the flexible clamping requirements of production, and can be digitally controlled to facilitate precise control of speed, position, and clamping force.

Its gripper stroke reaches 90mm, which is nearly five times higher than that of existing products. It can more accurately control the gripping force and stroke, support programming control, and facilitate the expansion of more application scenarios. In addition, it can also be adapted to a variety of robotic arms. For example, users can directly install the EFG series on the UR Universal Robots arm without additional modification and adaptation.

Today, Huiling Technology's products have been successfully exported to dozens of countries including the United States, Germany, Japan, and South Korea, and have been widely used in 3C, pharmaceutical and biochemical, new retail, automobile, education and other fields, serving thousands of domestic and foreign customers including Xiaomi, Huawei, Foxconn, and Panasonic .