Gearboxes and drives for service robots
Whether cleaning robots, humanoids, or surgical robots—our solutions for service robotics combine compact design with high functionality. Gear components, wheel hub drives, and drive solutions tailored to your needs ensure efficient and sensitive movements.
Precise gear components for humanoid robots
Gear solutions for customized humanoid robots are increasingly taking on tasks in areas originally intended for humans—such as logistics, assembly assistance, or industrial applications. This requires high-precision, high-performance drive components that enable sensitive movements with minimal installation space.
This is exactly where our worm gear sets and gears come into play: wherever maximum mobility, precise control, and reliable torque transmission are required—for example, in joint-like axes or sensor-supported gripping systems. Working closely with our customers in co-engineering, we develop tailor-made components or even complete drive systems for complex motion requirements. While worm gear sets support sensitive, low-noise movements in robotics thanks to balanced sliding effects, planetary gears in larger axes such as the hips or knees of humanoid robots impress with their high torque density and low weight.
The advantages for robotics at a glance:
- Compact and powerful: The custom-developed planetary gear stage combines a space-saving design with high torque density and enables dynamic and precise joint movements.
- Safe and noise-optimized: Worm gear sets are characterized by self-locking and noise-optimized running behavior, ensuring precise and reliable motion transmission.
Highly integrated wheel hub drive for cleaning robots
Fully automated cleaning robots such as the CR700 from Adlatus Robotics clean industrial and commercial areas independently, efficiently, and precisely. They navigate safely through complex environments, adapt flexibly to changing conditions, and contribute significantly to environmentally conscious cleaning concepts—including in industry, airports, and municipal facilities. To meet these high requirements, Adlatus relies on the highly integrated wheel hub drives from Framo Morat. The space-saving combination of all drive elements in a single unit enables a compact vehicle architecture with high power density. The Standard, Advanced, and Ultimate configuration levels allow the range of functions to be scaled individually – from fast commissioning and intelligent control options to continuous optimization of the entire driving cycle.
The wheel hub drives thus make a decisive contribution to the precise, reliable, and energy-efficient operation of modern cleaning robots.
The advantages of the highly integrated wheel hub drive at a glance:
- Compact system solution: Framo Morat's wheel hub drives integrate PUR wheels, gearboxes, motors, brakes, and electronics into a space-saving unit—for easy vehicle integration, high power density, and maximum reliability.
- Modular and scalable: The Standard, Advanced, and Ultimate configuration levels allow the control system and range of functions to be adapted to specific requirements – from fast commissioning to intelligent driving cycle optimization.
Worm gear sets for bionic robot hands
The bionic hand for robots is modeled on the human hand and combines advanced sensor technology with precise drive technology. Sensors and actuators convert electrical signals into finely tuned movements. Typically, control is achieved through myoelectric impulses, AI-supported control algorithms, or external input systems that enable the fingers to open, close, and grasp objects in different ways. This allows not only simple gripping movements to be performed, but also complex manipulations such as turning, positioning, or simultaneously holding several objects.
The worm gear set from Framo Morat precisely converts the received signals into movement – quietly, reliably, and in the smallest of spaces. The self-locking effect of the worm gearing enables the finger position to be held securely even without active drive. Thanks to its compact design, the total weight of the bionic hand remains comparable to that of a natural hand. The noise-optimized running behavior ensures inconspicuous and comfortable use.
The advantages of worm gear sets at a glance:
- Self-locking: For secure finger positioning
- Compact design: For minimum weight and minimal installation space
- Noise-optimized running characteristics: For inconspicuous use
speeroX wheel sets for robotics: Low installation space with high precision
Drives for robotics applications place the highest demands on precision, reliability, and compactness. In addition to excellent positioning accuracy and a long service life, high power density is essential for gear solutions—especially in confined installation conditions. In medical technology, there is another decisive factor: Operation must be as quiet as possible in order to meet the requirements of sensitive application environments.
These complex requirements make individually tailored gearbox design indispensable – and thus make speeroX the optimal solution for highly dynamic and precise motion tasks in sensitive areas of application.
The advantages of speeroX at a glance:
- Low torsional play: For high-precision movements.
- High power density: For maximum performance in the smallest installation space
- Balanced sliding effects: For noise-minimized use
