Well I don't know about that. Why not grapple tool?

Brian

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"Snidely" wrote in message
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Brian Gaff submitted this idea :
And while I'm at it, ok so the piece it grapples is a grapple pin, but
where did the word that sounds like end-effector come from?

Strange terminology.

From being on the end of the arm, and being the effector of the gripping
action. That seems to be the term used by robots in Detroit and Nagoya
and elsewhere, rather than specific to the Canadarm.

/dps

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