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About Nabtesco

Nabtesco is a Japanese motion-control company headquartered in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, formed on September 29, 2003 through the business integration of two long-established manufacturers, Teijin Seiki and NABCO. Its relevance to robotics rests on one core product family: the RV series of precision reduction gears, the joint drives used in the base, shoulder and elbow axes of medium- and large-payload industrial robots. First marketed in the mid-1980s, these cycloidal reducers are valued for high rigidity, low backlash and shock-load tolerance, and they were adopted rapidly by robot makers in Japan and abroad; Nabtesco is widely regarded as the dominant global supplier in this niche. Newer lines extend the same technology into compact reducers for collaborative and humanoid robot joints, and into Mecanum-wheel drive units used in AGVs and autonomous mobile robots.

The rest of the group applies its "moving it, stopping it" motion-control technology outside the factory: hydraulic equipment, railroad vehicle brakes and doors, aircraft flight-control actuation systems, marine vessel controls, commercial vehicle air brakes, automatic doors and platform screen doors, packaging machines and welfare equipment such as prosthetic knee joints. The group counts 15 domestic and 51 overseas consolidated subsidiaries. Nabtesco is listed here as a key drivetrain component supplier to the world’s industrial robot industry.

Products & services

• RV precision reduction gears for industrial robot joints
• Compact precision reduction gears (Monocrank series) for collaborative and humanoid robot joints
• Mecanum-wheel drive units and traveling units for AGVs/AMRs and construction machinery
• Hydraulic equipment and control valves
• Motion-control equipment for railroad, aircraft, marine, commercial vehicle and automatic door applications

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