Greetings! I am currently trying to set up a Robotiq 2F-85 gripper with the FT 300 sensor onto a KUKA iiwa 7 robot arm. Through the media flange, I have been able to power the gripper (through the KUKA's X3 port), and I used the USB converter to communicate through ROS (which also worked very well). To do this, I ended up mounting the RS485 to USB converter onto the arm.

However, I am trying to do the same with the FT sensor. According to the manual, we can use a single converter for multiple grippers. Is that the case as well with the FT sensor? If not, does that mean we would need to mount a second converter onto the arm and use a second USB port for communication?

The major concern we have is that we would have a second cable wrapping around the robot arm (even though we can use the same X3 port in the KUKA's media flange to power the sensor).

Thank you for your time!

You can only use one RS485 to USB converter per product.
You cannot connect 2 grippers on one converter or 1 gripper and a ft300 on the same converter.

Thank you for your quick reply!