Features and Benefits

Lightweight design

Reduces moving inertia for faster cycle times

Compact, small footprint

Efficient use of space; adaptable to mobile platforms

Long and slender links

Reaches in and around obstacles with ease

Backdrivable

Extends force control along entire surfaces of joints throughout links

Kinematic redundancy

Unusually high dexterity in either 4 or 7 degree-of-freedom configurations

Human-like kinematics

Arm links form grasps around large objects (~1 m)

270-degree average joint mobility

Enhances dexterity and agility even beyond human capability

Zero-backlash and near-zero friction

Extraordinarily graceful motion

Modular construction

Interchangeable components

Brushless rare-earth

High torque, low mass, lower rotor inertia, servo motors and vacuum compatibility

Open control architecture

Excellent research tool: direct access to sinusoidally commutated current amplifiers for developing advanced control algorithms