News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“The concept of the magazine has been widely used in severa l kinds of the machine tools. The commercialmachine tool may grip force for gri pping the tools via the air pressure. However, the aforementionedmechanisms are also usually used in the robotic arms, such as the switching of cutter, tools o r jigs.“Overall, the commercial tool switching method are mostly accomplished manually. Furthermore, thefunctional tools are actuated via the built-in actuators per s e. However, considering the variety of needsof the production lines, tasks and requirements, the related machines such as the robotic arms which areunable to quickly switch the tools at the end per se have been unacceptable nowadays.
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