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T-Collection actuators from HEBI Robotics.
HEBI Robotics was awarded a $150,000 Small Enterprise Innovation Analysis (SBIR) grant by NASA to develop sensible robotic actuation {hardware} and constructing blocks that can be utilized in house. The brand new merchandise shall be suitable with HEBI’s present platform for robotic improvement.
HEBI stated the SBIR grant will assist its efforts to additional increase its platform with “House-Rated Modular Robotic Constructing Blocks.” The know-how developed will make it attainable to design and create robots terrestrially with HEBI constructing blocks, after which switch that work to space-rated HEBI {hardware} that may be deployed in missions in house, representing a significant leap ahead in robotics.
“For ten years, HEBI has been working to streamline the method of creating robots. Prospects world wide use our system to create sturdy robots that will have been infeasible with out the HEBI Platform,” stated Bob Raida, who was named CEO of HEBI Robotics in 2023. “A lot of these customers are designing methods that can finally be deployed in house. This mission will make it attainable for these customers to design and construct robots of their lab with the HEBI Platform, realizing that work will carry by way of to the ultimate manufacturing design and system.”
Based in 2014, HEBI’s long-term objective is to make it straightforward to create sturdy, professional-grade robots, with out requiring years of technical coaching. The HEBI Platform is utilized by builders in a wide range of industries, and people robots usually must carry out in difficult environments. Through the years, HEBI has expanded its {hardware} to be able to performing in a wider vary of environments together with moist and soiled environments, and underwater.
The Section I SBIR program is designed to encourage small companies to interact in federal analysis and improvement with the potential for commercialization. By funding revolutionary tasks, NASA goals to foster new applied sciences that may assist house missions and enhance our understanding of house and know-how.
All proposals submitted to the NASA SBIR/STTR program bear a rigorous merit-based evaluation course of. As soon as a small enterprise is awarded a Section I grant, it turns into eligible to use for Section II funding and extra dietary supplements totaling as much as $1 million.
HEBI Robotics relies in Pittsburgh and spun out from Carnegie Mellon College’s Biorobotics Lab. Earlier in 2024, HEBI Robotics launched its H-Collection actuators that it stated present larger versatility, precision, and torque, and can be utilized to create customized robots for difficult environments. The H-Collection actuators characteristic zero backlash, as much as 140 Nm of steady torque, an onboard IMU, present sensing, and over-temperature safety. These options enable it for use in something from wheeled robots to collaborative robotic arms.
The corporate additionally intrdouced this yr new T-Collection, R-Collection actuators, and Monitor actuators.
HEBI Robotics received an RBR50 Robotics Innovation Award in 2023 for making use of its modularity experience to cell robots. It launched cell robots for industrial inspection and upkeep. The robots have been constructed round HEBI’s R-Collection actuators which are designed for moist and soiled outside environments.