Patent ID: 7987585

Claim:
A robotic tool for assembling a portion of a disk drive, the disk drive including a base and a head stack assembly, the head stack assembly including an actuator assembly, a flex circuit coupled to the actuator assembly and a flex circuit connector coupled to the flex circuit, the robotic tool comprising: a movable end effector including a first portion and a second portion that is movable relative to the first portion, the first portion being configured to engage the actuator assembly and the second portion being configured to engage the flex circuit connector; and a controller configured to control the movable end effector, the controller operable to cause the end effector to: pick up the head stack assembly in a first configuration; move the second portion of the end effector relative to the first portion thereof so as to articulate the head stack assembly into a second configuration that is different than the first configuration; and place the head stack assembly into the base.