KINOVA’s Gen3 Family of Robotic Arms Supports Research Efforts and Spurs Commercial Development

Analysis:
Academic and commercial R&D efforts are the wellspring of most robotics innovation, including early experimentation and development for commercial-class robotics systems. Collaborative robotics arms are commonly employed as research tools, but the suppliers of most cobots consider research to be a secondary or tertiary target market a er the manufacturing, logistics, and other commercial sectors.

Since its founding, KINOVA has focused on supplying highly versatile, off -the-shelf robotics technologies for academic and commercial R&D -- initially, personal assistance systems. The company has been working with partners to provide robotics solutions for challenging, typically low-volume applications.

This approach has resulted in KINOVA arms acting as adaptable research tools for many commercial solutions, or as the platform on which a wide range of commercial systems and applications are built. Examples include bomb disposal and hazmat robots, surgical systems, field robotics technologies and more. With the release of the Gen3 and Gen3 Lite systems, robotics innovation will be better supported in just this way. RR -- Dan Kara