Barrett TechnologyNot yet claimed

About Barrett Technology

Barrett Technology is a United States maker of advanced robotic arms and hands, based in Newton, Massachusetts, and founded in 1988 as a spin-out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. Its WAM arm is a cable-driven, back-drivable 7-degree-of-freedom manipulator built around the company’s Puck motor controllers: because the arm senses and controls the forces it applies, it can work in direct physical contact with people, a design recognised as a world first for human-interacting robotic arms. The BarrettHand is a multi-fingered programmable grasper used with the WAM and other arms, and the same technology underlies Burt, an FDA-registered upper-extremity robotic trainer for neurorehabilitation sold through the company’s Barrett Medical line.

Barrett’s customers are research laboratories, universities, space and industrial R&D programmes rather than volume manufacturers, and its robots have been a reference platform in haptics and manipulation research for three decades. The company is a private limited liability company with no public funding rounds. For directory partners, Barrett is a specialist supplier of human-safe, force-controlled arms and dexterous hands for advanced research and medical robotics.

Products & services

• WAM 7-DOF cable-driven robotic arm (and 4-DOF variants)
• BarrettHand multi-fingered programmable grasper (BH8 series)
• Puck intelligent motor controllers
• Burt upper-extremity robotic trainer for neurorehabilitation (Barrett Medical; FDA-registered)
• Proficio and research manipulation platforms

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