Grippers and end effectors

A dexterous hand earns its cost when the task requires in-hand reorientation, human-tool use, or a policy trained on human demonstrations that must transfer to a human-shaped end effector. That is a real set of problems — but it is a smaller set than most procurement lists assume.

If the task is pick, place, machine-tend, or bin-pick, a parallel or multi-finger gripper will be faster to integrate, cheaper to run, more repeatable over millions of cycles, and easier to service. The interesting middle ground is a multi-finger gripper: 6 to 18 degrees of freedom, industrial buses and cycle life, but enough adaptability to handle parts that are not identical. That is the slot TESOLLO occupies, and almost nobody else does.