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robolink® and art

Martin Raak | 21. November 2017

The swiss light artist CAROLINE TAPERNOUX has used three robolink® joint arms to create different light installations and test our products for possible projects. This was our first project with a worldwide successfull artist and it was a great pleasure for us. Please watch the sample video to get an impression of her work or visit her website: […]

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RL-S strain wave gears now available

Martin Raak | 4. May 2017

At the HMI trade show we released our strain wave gear (RL-S) as a product in addition to our worm gears (RL-D). The smallest version of the strain wave gear (RL-S-17-N11-00-28-020K0) is used for the fifth axis in the standard joint arms RL-D-RBT-5532S-XX and RL-D-RBT-3322S-XX. The RL-S-17 gear comes in two variations, both have a […]

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Sorry for absence

Martin Raak | 1. March 2017

our blog has been offline nearly 3 weeks due to internal revision. It took us lonnger than expected and I am very sorry for the long absence. Please come back! Soon I will post new data sheets for our RL-D joints with some improvements and more technical data. In addition I will soon post new videos “how to […]

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robolink at MOTEK, 4 DOF, new documents

Martin Raak | 30. September 2015

At this year’s MOTEK show in Stuttgart (GER) we will show the possibility to build 4 DOF robot arms with our motorized joints. 2 films at the end of this entry show 2 possible concepts: 1) “small” version with 4 joints size 30 – 30 -20 – 20, built with igus DC motors. No programming […]

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robot FLASH from Wroclaw University of technology (Poland)

Martin Raak | 28. September 2015

The team of Jan Kedzierski (Ph.D.) from Wroclaw University of technology now presents their NEW generation of the autonomous robot FLASH. It is (again) equipped with 2 pcs. 5 DOF robolink wire driven joint arms. They developpped their own drive technology for this robot based on DC/BLDC motors as an open source project. It will […]

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