About this role
The hands of a humanoid robot are yours to design. Your Role & Responsibilities Own the end-effector strategy across different industrial robotics applications. Analyze customer workflows and operational requirements to identify the most suitable endeffector solutions. Evaluate and select commercially available end-effectors including grippers, suction systems, hooks, tool changers, robotic hands, cameras, and specialized tooling. Drive standardization and platform thinking by reducing the number of end-effector variants while maximizing use-case coverage. Define requirements for future end-effector solutions based on customer needs, product requirements, and engineering constraints. Coordinate and manage relationships with external suppliers, technology partners, and development vendors. Support feasibility studies, proof-of-concepts, customer evaluations, and pilot deployments. Define evaluation criteria, benchmarking methodologies, and trade-off analyses for endeffector technologies. Develop business cases and technical recommendations for buy-vs-build decisions. Track emerging technologies and market trends in manipulation, grasping, vacuum handling, tactile sensing, dexterous hands, and industrial tooling. Ensure successful integration of selected end-effectors into the robotic platform and deployment workflows. Contribute to the development of a long-term manipulation and tooling roadmap.