Vacuum suction cups are very common in people's daily lives, but have you ever seen vacuum suction cups for robots? Vacuum suction cups can help robots better "hold" objects. Below, we will introduce some knowledge about industrial robot vacuum suction cups.

Firstly, it is necessary to understand the classification of vacuum suction cups for robots, which can be divided into two simple and representative types:

1、Conventional suction cup: Rubber suction cup, generally refers to the conventional application of a suction cup with a suction cup connecting rod.

2、Sponge suction cup: It can grip a large area and is considered a modular suction cup gripper with a wide range of uses.

So why do industrial robot vacuum suction cups suck so firmly?

Vacuum suction cup is a new, clean, economical, and small vacuum equipment actuator that uses a positive pressure air source to generate negative pressure. This makes it very easy and convenient to obtain negative pressure in places with compressed air or in places where both positive and negative pressures are required in a pneumatic system.

The vacuum generator and suction cup work together to adsorb and transport various materials, especially suitable for adsorbing fragile, soft, thin non-ferrous, non-metallic materials or spherical objects. A common feature in such applications is that the required pumping volume is small, the vacuum requirement is not high, and it operates intermittently. If a vacuum suction cup wants to suck more firmly, it needs to be used in conjunction with a vacuum generator. The vacuum degree belongs to the performance of the generator itself and is not related to the suction cup. If the same suction cup is required to be matched with different generators, then it is definitely the generator with higher vacuum degree that can generate greater suction force from the suction cup.

Nowadays is the era of automated production, and vacuum suction cups are the main pneumatic components on robots. Only by understanding this knowledge can we better carry out production. At present, industrial robots can be seen in the production workshops of every enterprise, and the use of robots for production is the future trend of industrial development.