Abstract: A picker for removing articles from a remote location, including an open frame carrier secured to a molding machine for linear movement along support rods in a direction perpendicular to the direction of movement of one of the mold platens, i.e., a Y-axis direction, under control of a first fluid cylinder. The carrier, in turn, mounts a carriage for linear movement in a direction normal thereto, i.e. an X-axis direction, under the control of a second fluid cylinder. The carriage includes a third fluid cylinder for controlling linear movement in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second directions, i.e. a Z-axis direction. Depending from the carriage is a gripping unit coupled to the third cylinder, the gripping unit including a picker arm under control of a fourth fluid cylinder for movement in the X-axis direction and which picker arm terminates at its inner end in a pair of jaws or fingers, the opening and closing of which are under control of a fifth cylinder.