Organization: Kinova Inc.
Country: Canada
Website: www.kinovarobotics.com
Year Founded: 2006
Number of Employees: 160+
Innovation Class: Technology & Services Innovation
Innovation Subclass: Product Introduction
Since its founding, KINOVA has focused on supplying highly versatile, off -the-shelf robotics technologies for academic and commercial R&D.
Description:
Following several years of research and development work, and in close collaboration with
research centers worldwide, in January 2019, KINOVA announced the commercial launch of
the KINOVA Gen3 robotic arm. It is a 7-DoF (degrees-of- eedom), lightweight (carbon-fi ber)
collaborative robotic arm specifi cally engineered for research and commercial labs. The Gen3
system boasts of embedded 2D (RBG) and 3D (Intel RealSense) vision, and an interface module
off ering a variety of options for connectivity and end eff ector development. In March 2020,
the company extended the Gen3 line with the Gen3 Lite, an ultralight arm designed for light
manipulation tasks.
Following several years of research and development work, and in close collaboration with
research centers worldwide, in January 2019, KINOVA announced the commercial launch of
the KINOVA Gen3 robotic arm. It is a 7-DoF (degrees-of- eedom), lightweight (carbon-fi ber)
collaborative robotic arm specifi cally engineered for research and commercial labs. The Gen3
system boasts of embedded 2D (RBG) and 3D (Intel RealSense) vision, and an interface module
off ering a variety of options for connectivity and end eff ector development. In March 2020,
the company extended the Gen3 line with the Gen3 Lite, an ultralight arm designed for light
manipulation tasks.