Robotiq publishes no prices of its own. When we priced its palletizing line in July we had to work from a distributor's live listings, and that covered the palletizer and the 2F-85 gripper only. This is the rest of the catalogue: on 7 August 2026 we read 288 Robotiq SKUs from Automation Distribution — the same distributor whose listings we used for our UR spare-parts study, so these numbers are directly comparable with those.
What the expensive end costs
| SKU | Price (USD) |
|---|---|
| Pickit M-HD 3D vision system | $68,177.34 |
| Palletizing solution, pedestal + AirPick | $57,712.50 |
| Palletizing solution, pedestal | $49,429.69 |
| Machine tending solution, dual Hand-E | $26,977.03 |
| Screwdriving solution, UR e-Series | $23,129.53 |
| Machine tending solution, single Hand-E | $20,983.13 |
| SD-100 screwdriver basic kit | $15,550.31 |
| External tool finishing kit + FT 300-S, UR CB-Series | $15,541.41 |
| Machine tending solution | $14,989.22 |
| Surface finishing kit, UR CB-Series | $14,428.13 |
| Linear axis, AX series | $13,314.84 |
| External tool finishing kit, UR e-Series | $12,157.03 |
| Startup assistance (labour) | $11,578.13 |
| Surface finishing kit, UR e-Series | $10,357.97 |
| Insights starter kit | $9,832.50 |
| PowerPick vacuum gripper kit | $9,351.56 |
| Insights connection kit | $7,490.16 |
| Hand-E C10 concentric adaptive gripper | $7,249.69 |
| SF-300 screw feeder basic kit | $6,893.44 |
The most expensive Robotiq SKU is a camera
Pickit M-HD, the 3D vision system, lists at $68,177.34 — 18.1% more than the fully equipped vacuum palletizing solution and 9.4× the price of the Hand-E gripper. In a catalogue people think of as "grippers and a force sensor", perception is the single biggest line item, and it costs nearly as much as the complete MT-100 machine tending cell at $74,399.00 that includes a cobot, a gripper and controls.
Old robots cost more to equip
The same application kit is priced twice, once for UR's CB-Series and once for the e-Series, and the older robot is dearer both times:
- External tool finishing: $15,541.41 (CB) vs $12,157.03 (e-Series), +27.8%
- Surface finishing: $14,428.13 (CB) vs $10,357.97 (e-Series), +39.3%
The CB listing spells out why in its own SKU name — it bundles an FT 300-S force sensor, which the e-Series carries internally. The premiums, $3,384.38 and $4,070.16, are in the range you would expect a bolt-on force sensor to cost; that reading is ours, not the distributor's, but it points at a real budgeting trap. A shop running older CB-Series arms should assume roughly $3,000–$4,000 more per finishing station, which is a live argument for the newer arm at fleet scale.
What does not affect the price
Three groups of SKUs are priced flat regardless of specification:
- Screwdriving solutions: four listings differing only in the bit kit shipped — Torx, Phillips, metric hex, imperial hex — all at exactly $23,129.53. The bits do not price.
- Gripper couplings: nine different mechanical interfaces for the 2F-85/2F-140, all $1,050.94.
- FT 300-S couplings: four interfaces, all $819.38; the blank is $765.94.
This is the same pattern we found at OnRobot on 4 August, where three Gecko SP variants rated 1, 3 and 5 kg all sold for $891. Mechanical fit is not a pricing variable in this industry; capability is.
The software is in the catalogue, and it is not cheap
Buried among the hardware are licences and subscriptions:
- Software licence USB dongle for the Wrist Camera: $4,266.09 — a dongle that costs more than most of the grippers' accessory kits combined, and 6.6× the two-hour camera training course at $650.16
- Insights connection kit: $7,490.16, priced identically for the Americas and for Europe & Asia
- Insights one-year advanced subscription: $2,582.81; renewal/monthly adjustment $222.66
- Insights six-month licence: $17.81 — the cheapest SKU in the entire 288-item catalogue
That last figure does not behave like a price. A six-month licence at $17.81 against a twelve-month licence at $2,582.81 is a 145× ratio for twice the term. On the evidence we would treat it as a catalogue placeholder or a bundled-entitlement line rather than something you can actually buy standing alone — the same judgement we applied to the $0.00 and $0.01 listings catalogued in our analysis of what a published robot price is worth. Confirm it with the distributor before building it into a quote.
The shape of the catalogue
Across all 288 SKUs the median price is $578.91, 139 items sit under $500 and 25 sit above $10,000. That is a barbell: a long tail of screw kits at $26.72, fingertips at $258.28 and cables, and a short head of complete application solutions. Robotiq also sells labour as a line item — startup assistance at $11,578.13, on-site training at $2,636.25, coaching at $320.63 an hour — which remains unusual among the end-effector brands we have priced.
All figures are one distributor's listings read on a single day; Robotiq's own site quotes rather than publishes, so treat these as the going US channel price rather than a manufacturer list. For the arms these tools bolt onto, see our collaborative robot category.
