Robotiq Launches the 2FC Physical AI Gripper

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Robotiq today launched the 2FC physical AI gripper, a production-ready adaptive gripper with tactile sensing and embedded intelligence. Pre-orders open today, with shipping planned in Q1 2027 (shipping is planned, not yet realized). The product builds on Robotiq's 2F adaptive gripper, a platform with more than 30,000 deployed worldwide, and adds tactile sensing, compute at the wrist (the AI Hub) and Contact Core, Robotiq's software for physical AI. The gripper captures pressure, vibration, proprioception, force, position and current, synchronized at millisecond level, and currently runs grasp skills locally and in real time, including grasp quality assessment, incipient slip detection, object pose estimation, object centering and advanced grip check. The gripper is rated for 2 million cycles and is underactuated for both parallel and encompassing grasps; existing owners of Robotiq's 2F grippers can add TSF tactile sensors and the AI Hub to upgrade rather than replacing their gripper.

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Source: EE Journal · 10/22/2026 · View original source