For the assembly of miniaturized radar distance sensors vacuum grippers for handling touch sensitive and very small millimeterwave monolithic integrated circuits ((MIC)-I-3's) have been developed. The grippers are designed modularly to allow different combinations of gripper heads, chip-specific gripper plates and gripper exchange interfaces. The manufacture of the gripper components by mu-EDM and the batch processing of photoetchable glass is presented. In addition, a solution for the removal of M3IC's from adhesive carriers, such as VR Gel-Paks and bluetape with vacuum support has been developed which is suitable for automatic pick & place machine routines.