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HEBI’s H-Collection Actuators are sealed to IP65. | Supply: HEBI Robotics

HEBI Robotics final week throughout the Robotics Summit & Expo expanded its choices with its new H-Collection platform of sensible robotic actuators. The corporate says this new sequence of actuators gives increased versatility, precision, and torque, and can be utilized to create customized robots for difficult environments. 

The Pittsburgh-based spin-off from Carnegie Mellon College’s Biorobotics Lab says the purpose-built H-Collection gives extra versatility and torque whereas nonetheless withstanding rugged situations. 

The H-Collection is a fully-featured robotic element with an onboard IMU, present sensing, and over-temperature safety. These options permit it for use in something from wheeled robots to collaborative robotic arms. The sequence has zero backlash and as much as 140 Nm steady torque.

Technical particulars behind HEBI’s H-Collection Actuators

HEBI’s H-Collection actuators can run on something from 24V-48V DC and talk utilizing normal 100 Mbps Fiber-Optic Ethernet. This permits for straightforward, versatile integration with much less downtime. 

The corporate sealed every H-Collection actuator to IP65 and designed them with HEBI’s nice modular flexibility, and has 10 instances extra energy and extra exact place management. The actuator is at the moment obtainable in HEBI’s on-line retailer. 

“The H-Collection is an thrilling growth of the HEBI ecosystem,” Bob Raida, CEO of HEBI Robotics, stated. “HEBI’s long run imaginative and prescient is to create the following technology of robotic instruments and put the ability of robotic improvement into the arms of each employee, whether or not they’re a technician, farmer, or anything. With a view to do this we’re constantly increasing the capabilities and flexibility of our platform. The H-Collection is a vital step in that course.”

To make controlling the H-Collection straightforward, HEBI Robotics gives cross-platform software program instruments. The instruments include options like reside plotting, management from cell gadgets like cellphone and tablets, and APIs for MATLAB, ROS, C/C++, and Python. 

HEBI Robotics showcased its Tready cell platform and new H-Collection Actuators on the 2024 Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston. | Credit score: HEBI Robotics

Earlier this yr, HEBI named Raida CEO and Dave Rollinson CTO. Howie Choset, who has been performing CEO, was named chairman of the board. HEBI stated this variation in management displays its transition from offering expertise to researchers to offering options to end-users.

Raida started working with HEBI Robotics in 2015, initially as an exterior enterprise advisor. He grew to become the primary full-time worker of HEBI in 2016 as VP of enterprise improvement. Since 2017 he has been serving as chief working officer. 

Rollinson is a co-founder of HEBI Robotics and a key contributor to its modular robotics expertise and imaginative and prescient. He studied underneath Choset at Carnegie Mellon College and acquired his Ph.D. whereas researching and creating the important thing applied sciences behind HEBI’s platform.