Partnership
Harmonic Drive SE x KUKA (Industrial Robot Joint Reducers)
Harmonic Drive SE supplies zero-backlash strain wave gear reducers for KUKA industrial robots. KUKA is one of the world's leading suppliers of intelligent robotics, using Harmonic Drive precision components across its KR series manipulator arms for automotive, aerospace, and logistics applications.
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- manufacturing
- Status
- Activeoperating
- Announced
- 2010-01-0116.7 years ago
- Active for
- 16.7 years
Who’s involved
German industrial robot manufacturer and one of the global Big Four robot makers. Acquired by China's [Midea group](/companies/midea-group) in 2016. Produces 6-axis articulated robots, quenching robots, and the KR QUANTEC series for automotive and industrial applications. The 1981 Kenji Urada fatality at a Kawasaki plant — Japan's first robot-related death — involved a Kawasaki industrial robot, underscoring these manufacturers' long safety history.
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