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publication_id: "OT-2026-000001462"
title: "Robotic electrical wire gripping solution for automated stripping and splicing or welding"
published_at: "2026-09-15T19:05:59.337650Z"
canonical_url: "https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001462"
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# Robotic electrical wire gripping solution for automated stripping and splicing or welding

## Abstract

A robotic wire gripper for gripping segments of sheathed electrical wire and presenting them to a splicing or welding machine includes a comb-like clamping wall structure with parallel longitudinally extending and transversely spaced clamping walls forming releasable jaws to grip wire segments near pre-stripped ends. A controllable actuator linearly moves the clamping walls in the transverse direction. A robot arm carries the comb-like structure and actuator. A controller causes controlled raking of pre-stripped wires aligned in a row into respective passageways, reduces spacing between walls to grip the wires, and simultaneously extracts all wires from a holder, thereby stripping the wires as the sheath is retained in the holder. The robot arm then presents the still-gripped, longitudinally aligned wire segments to a splicing or welding machine.