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how to change worm wheels (video)

Martin Raak | 7. March 2017

the main differences between our gears and standard metal gears are: ours are lubrication free (no grease, no oil) and very lightweight due to plastic and aluminium parts instead of steel, brass or bronze (=standard design). The same is valid for the bearings we use on the output (igus PRT = polymer round tables). This […]

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how to build a robolink arm (videos)

Martin Raak | 3. March 2017

we supply either components (joints, motors, cables,…) or complete electro-mechanical joint arms. compared to industrial robots, the composition of a robolink joint arm is quite easy and can be reproduced by “everybody”. We show the composition of a 5 DOF joint arm in 3 single video clips: assembly of joints, “motorkits” and “Inikits” (for 0-point reference), […]

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Customer application: Automation with RL

Martin Raak | 17. January 2017

Our german customer MATRIUM GmbH has designed and built this automation unit with a huge number of igus components such as drylinE rails, e-chains, chainflex, tribotape and also robolink. It runs today in daily operation. The robolink arm consists of 2 joints (size -20 and -30) and performs a “simple” scara movement. The complete unit is 5,50 x […]

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Control solution by commonplace robotics

Martin Raak | 12. December 2016

Company Commonplace robotics from GER shows a quick and simple control solution for our modular joint kit. It consists of a set of electronics (incl. stepper motor drivers) and a WINDOWS software package. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fojZpPTgJE&feature=youtu.be More details can not yet be announced, as this is a brand new solution, but we will check more facts within […]

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STEP data for robolink D

Martin Raak | 4. November 2015

since October 2015, the standard version of RL-D-50 (-101 and -102) is also available from stock. The missing PRT-02-50 version was the reason for the delay. Please find attached here the STEP data for our joints for all variants and sizes, as well as for a collection of motor kits (with igus stepper motors). These STEP […]

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