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The material feeding in hot stamping is quite different from traditional cold stamping. This paper described some key issues of automatic high-temperature steel plate feeding, some analysis and studies were done about gripping method, clamping force, local and whole plate temperature drop in transferring process, and some ideas about robot manipulator' design were proposed with that.