Polymer specialist igus® offers robot developers and laboratories a light weight, maintenance and corrosion-free range of connection of joints. For example, humanoid systems, general lightweight construction, handling/automation and camera tripods. The plastic joints can rotate and pivot freely (draw-wire technology, 4 wires per joint). The pneumatic, hydraulic and all data cables are laid through the aluminum/carbon fiber/plastic articulated arms to reliably control the sensors and sensory organs.
No expensive milling, no cutting, no tinkering, no fiddling any more – all custom made from one source!

• Moving mass is reduced to the minimum
• The actuators (engines, pneumatics and hydraulics) and the control module (DP, PC) are seperate to the movement nor and tools

All heavy components can now be bundled centrally and only the light plastic skeletal part can be moved!
Thereby the individual degrees of freedom can be controlled individually.

The modular igus® kit for humanoid robots covers:

• Joints, made of plastic, can be configured and extended any which way
• Link arms in several lengths, styles and dimensions, including space for additional control cables
• Towing ropes made of technical synthetic fiber
• igus® drive unit - Connection to drive and control units
• Tools (functional units), such as gripper, shovel, hook, suction cup, paddle, camera, etc., are self-adaptable as you like!