The Cylinder That Couldn’t Keep Up We built a pick-and-place station with a Ø32 cylinder to lift a 2 kg gripper. On paper, the math worked out: force = pressure × area. At 6 bar, a Ø32 cylinder produces about 480 N of thrust. The gripper weighs 2 kg (20 N). We had 24 times …

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