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Empire Robotics, Inc. was founded in 2012 to commercialize the jamming-based robotic gripper technology developed at Cornell University and the University of Chicago. Our mission is to help bring manufacturing jobs back to the US and to reduce the complexity and energy consumption of manufacturing around the world by providing innovative robotic grippers and automation components. Our VERSABALL grippers are high-functioning end effectors that enable more agile robotic manufacturing processes with a single inexpensive tool.