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

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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:
RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awardsobotics Business ReviewFollowing 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.

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

KINOVA Gen 3
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