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About Kinova

Kinova is a Canadian robotics company, founded in 2006 in Boisbriand, Quebec, in the Montreal area, that designs and manufactures lightweight robotic arms. It began in assistive robotics: the JACO arm mounts on a powered wheelchair and gives people with upper-body mobility limits an independent way to eat, drink and handle everyday objects. From that base Kinova expanded into ultralightweight arms for research and professional use — the Gen3 arm is a widely used platform for robotics research, inspection and remote operation, including nuclear decommissioning work under a long-running partnership with AtkinsRéalis — and into the Link 6 collaborative robot for industrial automation.

The company sells its arms with the Kortex software API and positions them across medical, assistive, research, education and industrial markets. In November 2025 Kinova announced a lead role in an ARPA-H project building a next-generation robotic mobility and manipulation platform around a new generation of the JACO arm. Funding is recorded below from the company’s own announcements — note that, contrary to the assumption in the queue research, Kinova has disclosed investment rounds. For directory partners, Kinova is a North American supplier of lightweight, human-safe arms for assistive, research and light-industrial work.

Products & services

• Gen3 ultralightweight robotic arm (research, inspection and remote operation)
• JACO assistive robotic arm for powered-wheelchair users
• Link 6 collaborative industrial robot
• Kortex software API and developer tools

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