Direct Drive Arm I

Description

First developed at CMU by Takeo Kanade and Haruhiko Asada, this is the first model of a Direct Drive Arm. By attaching the motors to the joints of the arm itself, Kanade and Asade successfully cut down on friction and increased reliability of robotic arms. This was the first direct-drive arm created, and served as a prototype for future arms.

Type

robots

Creator

Carnegie Mellon University. Robotics Institute.
Kanade, Takeo
Asada, H. (Haruhiko)

Date

1982

Collection

Christopher G. Atkeson Collection

Rights

Material(s)

metal

Subjects

Subject (Topic)

Robots
Robotics
Manipulators (Mechanism)

Subject (Name)

Direct Drive Arm (Robot)

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