Abstract
News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:““Field“The present disclosure relates generally to a method for robot gripper fingerti p design and, moreparticularly, to an automated method for gripper fingertip de sign which selects a gripper fingertip shapewhich optimizes robot bin picking p erformance for a particular workpiece and bin, where a parameterizedgripper sha pe is provided as input and the shape parameters are varied and used in simulati on until afingertip shape is identified which provides the best performance.