OPENTECHNICAL PUBLICATION
OT-2026-000001462

Robotic electrical wire gripping solution for automated stripping and splicing or welding

Published: 2026-09-15T19:05:59.337650Z
Permanent URL: https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001462
Categories: Robotics & Automation > Robot Architectures

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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.

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OpenTechnical publication OT-2026-000001462
Published 2026-09-15T19:05:59.337650Z
https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001462