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Industrial Grippers: State-of-the-Art and Main Design Characteristics

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  1. IMA: Institute of Applied Mechanics, National University of San Juan, Av. Libertador San Martín 1109 oeste, 5400, San Juan, Argentina

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Hugo, P.O. (2013). Industrial Grippers: State-of-the-Art and Main Design Characteristics. In: Carbone, G. (eds) Grasping in Robotics. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 10. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4664-3_5

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