Actuators / Motors / Servos

Matteo Stagni is appointed GM of a new office in Frankfurt, Germany, to better serve the rapidly growing European market.

Offering a combination of motion smoothness and torque density, the direct drive motors are designed for cobots, surgical robots and more.

Soft, pneumatic actuators can provide high response rates and power to input ratios, but creating them can be tedious.

Kollmorgen’s TBM2G series of frameless servo motors offers high-performance torque in a compact electromagnetics package.

The Delta Line size 115 frameless BLDC motors were developed to meet the space and performance requirements of robot joints.

The stepIM closed-loop servo stepper is available in three sizes: short (97.4 mm motor length), medium (105.9 mm motor length), and long (120.4 mm motor length).

The acquisition of Melior Motion strengthens Schaeffler’s robotics portfolio. The company began expanding its robotics presence in 2017.

The robots could be used in swarms to pollinate a field of crops, or to search for survivors in disaster areas.

The key to the team’s actuator’s quick movements is in its bi-stable design, and the shape it prefers depends on the temperature.

Selecting the correct motor is critical to overall performance for autonomous mobile robots.

The new Multiturn Inductive Angle Encoder can be used for robot joints, servo motors, cartesian robots and more.

Heidenhain’s MRS encoder module series for robotic arms has been redesigned embedded bearings to better withstand outside tilting forces.

GAM’s newest GCL cycloidal gearboxes provide high precision and rigidity for horizontal and vertical robotic and motion control applications.

Celera said the IncOder CORE is suited for integration into rotary joints for surgical, medical and industrial robots.

NH1-D series frameless motors fit into smaller machines requiring precision, high efficiency, low inertia, and high torque density.

Heidenhain’s new KCI 120 Dplus rotary encoder provides both motor feedback and position measurement.

The Series A supports the launch of the Archimedes Drive, which relies on friction instead of gear teeth to transmit torque.

The ATX West show is next week. Check out our show guide with a curated list of robotic vendors to visit while at the show.

The Profinet communication protocol is designed to meet the demanding conditions within an industrial environments.

Genesis Robotics launches LiveDrive LDD 1800 series direct-drive actuators, that enable high speed, oil-free, low maintenance operations.

Performance Motion Devices (PMD) recently debuted its new ION/CME N-Series Digital Drives, new members of the ION Digital Drive family that provide high-performance motion control, network connectivity and amplification. The N-Series ION digital drives feature a patented, ultra-rugged PCB-mountable package with three power output levels – 75, 300, and 1,000 W. All ION/CME N-Series Digital…

Harmonic Drive announced its new RSF-5 miniature actuator with an integrated servo drive. This evolutionary product eliminates the need for an external drive and greatly simplifies cabling while retaining high-positional accuracy and torsional stiffness in a compact housing. The RSF Mini and Supermini series is a family of compact actuators that deliver high torque with…