The invention discloses a multifunctional gripper capable of taking and placing yarns and a separating plate. The multifunctional gripper comprises a motor, a belt drive, a lead screw nut pair, a guide rail sliding block, a visual system, a distance measuring sensor module, yarn grabbing fingers and sponge suction cups, the motor transmits motion to a lead screw through a belt wheel, the lead screw rotates to achieve nut movement, and therefore opening and closing of the fingers are achieved; each finger is provided with one sponge suction cup, the suction cups can be folded into the two fingers along with combination of the fingers, and the yarn grabbing process is not affected; when the separating plate is grabbed, the fingers are opened to the maximum stroke, and the two sponge suctioncups suck up the separating plate through negative pressure; the stroke of the gripper is 100 mm, the inner diameter of a bobbin capable of grabbing cheese ranges from 92 mm to 130 mm, and the weightof the bobbin depends on the load (smaller than 20 kg) of the tail end of a cooperative robot; and the separating plate between the yarns can be grabbed, by means of the function, the number of the yarns conveyed by an AGV can be greatly increased, the grabbing problem of the separating plate does not need to be considered any more, and the automation efficiency is also improved.