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Harmonic Drive Moves the Robots
The strain wave gear is a public invention - and one Japanese company has spent 50 years owning the ability to build it
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The strain wave gear is a public invention - and one Japanese company has spent 50 years owning the ability to build it
How a 2003 merger of a gear maker and a brake maker ended up supplying most of the world's precision robot reducers
Nabtesco and Harmonic Drive quietly supply about 75% of the precision reducers the global robot industry runs on
Fanuc and Yaskawa quietly run the world's factories — and they're racing to automate the labour the planet no longer has
Every industrial robot, every CNC machining center, every semiconductor lithography machine, and every precision medical device shares a common dependency: they all…
Japan builds some of the most resilient infrastructure on Earth — skyscrapers that sway through magnitude-9 earthquakes, tunnels bored through active volcanic…
From factory floors to nursing homes, Japan's robots are everywhere