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SoftGripping GmbH

"The Modular Design System For Flexible Gripping"

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Hannover maker of modular pneumatic silicone soft grippers for food, delta and cobot robots; reports 3,500+ units sold to 500+ customers in 100 countries.

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Company Overview

SoftGripping GmbH is a German manufacturer of pneumatic soft-finger grippers and end-of-arm tooling components for handling delicate, irregular and food products. Its operating address is Hollerithallee 21 in Hannover, while the company is registered at Werder (Havel) in Brandenburg, with Dr. Sergey Stepanyuk listed as authorised shareholder representative. The product range is built as a modular system: robot flange adapters, bases with different finger counts and angles, air-driven silicone fingers, and optional spacers or suction cups, combined in configurations for specific products.

The SoftGripper is the ready-to-use line for high-speed and cobot applications. Centric bases suit round objects and parallel bases suit cubic or long objects, and the catalogue lists Classic 3, 4, 6 and 8-finger centric and parallel versions. Fingers are always FDA-approved silicone rubber, bases can be supplied in FDA-approved materials or coatings, parts are joined with hygienic screws, air runs through push-in fittings in the base and sloped surfaces avoid trapping debris, so the gripper can be spray-cleaned; the catalogue describes washdown and CIP capability. A Controlbox handles pressure control, pressure sensing and valves, closing the fingers quickly and opening them fully with negative pressure, with a separate suction-cup port; a version with an integrated pump serves cobots without compressed air, and a URCap is provided for Universal Robots.

The SoftActuator line supplies the same fingers as building blocks for integrators designing their own tooling, in stock as 1, 2 and 3-finger units, with arrays, carrier plates and an angle adapter. Two finger families are offered: ClassicFinger for smaller products up to 1 kg, and GorillaFinger for large, bagged or netted goods of 3.5 kg and more, with a whitepaper covering loads up to 5 kg. Product-specific tools include a FiletGripper for fish fillets, poultry and irregular meat cuts and a Drumstick gripper. Custom bases and finger layouts are built within about two weeks. An Educational SoftGripper kit with ISO flange adapters, in two- and three-finger versions including one for the Dobot Magician, is sold to schools and universities.

Target industries are bakery, protein, produce, e-commerce and logistics, on delta, SCARA, cobot and industrial robots. The company states more than 3,500 products sold, more than 500 customers, activity in 100 countries and 11 industries, and 14 years of experience. Its gripper appears on the Universal Robots UR+ marketplace, where the manufacturer is listed as Wegard, and it exhibited in the German Pavilion at ITAP 2024 in Singapore. In 2026 it presented an optimised finger geometry for food-industry handling.