Harmonic drive actuators

Precision, to the arcsecond.

Zero-backlash strain wave gears: designed, machined, and bench-verified in-house. Scroll to look inside.

01Output flange

Rigid mounting interface: your load bolts straight to the flexspline output. Output · load

02Circular spline

Fixed outer ring with two more teeth than the flexspline: that difference is the reduction. Fixed · housing

03Flexspline + wave generator

A thin steel cup deflected by an elliptical cam: full-depth tooth engagement, zero backlash. As low as 15″

04Frameless motor

Stator windings around the rotor drive the wave generator directly: no belts, no couplings. Input · high speed

05Absolute encoder

Optical disc on the input shaft closes the position loop to arcsecond resolution. Feedback · 23-bit

06Drive controller

Integrated servo electronics: commutation, current loop, and fieldbus on one board. EtherCAT · CANopen

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Verified on the bench, not the brochure

Numbers we sign our name to.

15arcsec
Backlash on our tightest harmonic series, measured on every unit
161:1
Peak single-stage reduction ratio
100%
Of drives bench-tested before shipping
Catalogue

Eight series. Ninety-five part numbers.

Integrated harmonic servo joints, force-sensing and lightweight variants, rotary and linear actuators, and bare strain wave gears. Peak torque to 2,700 N·m, every unit to the same published spec.

Manufacturing

Trust is earned in measurement.

We hold the tolerances on our own machines and verify rated behaviour on the bench before a unit leaves the building.

±0.005 mm

Tooth geometry, held in-house

Flexspline and circular-spline profiles cut and inspected against the design geometry on critical features.

As low as ≤15″

Backlash, measured on every unit

Angular play measured on the bench and logged to the serial number, against each series' published limit. Ships only if it passes.

Full rotation

Running torque & friction

No-load running torque and starting torque checked across the rotation for smoothness and no tight spots.

Serial-traceable

Test record with every drive

Each unit ships with its measured backlash, torque, and ratio matched to its serial number.

Applications

Where they run.

Anywhere a machine has to stop exactly where it's told.

Robotics

Collaborative & industrial arms

Compact, coaxial reduction at the joint: high stiffness and repeatable positioning.

Defence & aerospace

Stabilised platforms & gimbals

Arcsecond pointing for optics and antennas under motion and vibration.

Machine tool

Indexing & rotary axes

Rigid, repeatable positioning for tool changers, index tables, and 5-axis heads.

Medical

Surgical & imaging motion

Smooth, quiet, backlash-free actuation where precision is non-negotiable.

Semiconductor

Wafer handling & metrology

Fine angular resolution for stages and handlers in tightly-toleranced fabs.

Metrology & optics

Precision positioning stages

Where the arcsecond is literally the unit of work: mounts, trackers, benches.

From the gear lab

Engineering notes.

How strain wave gears work, how to size them, and how to read the datasheet, written by the engineers who machine and measure them.

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