From gear design and manufacturing to inspection, Gleason delivers production solutions for the high-precision gears powering the next generation of humanoid robots, including internal and external gears for planetary gearboxes, strain wave and cycloidal drives, as well as globoid worms, and small straight and spiral bevel gears.
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Flexible machine systems, combined with custom workholding solutions and high-precision cutting tools, provide the foundation for manufacturing fine-pitch internal and external gears, complex geometries with interfering contours, thin-walled components susceptible to deformation, and specialized gear designs such as strain wave and cycloidal gears.
KISSsoft Gear and Transmission Design Software provides all the tools required to accurately and efficiently design planetary and strain wave gearboxes, as well as other drivetrain components commonly used in humanoid robots. Gleason GEMS Design Software streamlines the design of high-precision bevel gears for angular drives, transmissions, and actuators.
Gleason's 80PS features power skiving, hobbing, gear and worm milling for external and internal gears, combi gears, thin-walled parts, geared shafts, worms and worm gears, and even conikron bevel gears. With its capability to switch between power skiving, hobbing and milling in a few minutes, you are well prepared for prototyping or extensive production runs without changing equipment.
Specific humanoid designs require small precise bevel gears for angular actuation, like hip joints and similar movements. With Gleason bevel gear manufacturing systems, connect design, manufacture and metrology to a Smart Loop manufacturing system. The Phoenix® 100C Bevel Gear Cutting Machine is the ideal choice for manufacturing small, fine-pitch bevel gears with exceptional precision and productivity:
Gleason is your trusted partner for custom and modular workholding as well as premium carbide tools, including hobs, power skiving cutters, milling cutters, and solid bevel cutters, designed to produce fine-pitch, high-precision gears in high numbers.
Gleason 175GMS nano is ideally suited to meet the highest inspection and analysis requirements for small, fine-pitch gears. Combined with optional automation and Closed Loop corrective feedback, Gleason enables highly automated inspection processes, up to fully integrated Lights-Out Production.
Gleason Automation Systems seamlessly connect gear manufacturing, inspection, and material handling into a highly efficient production cell. From raw parts to finished gears, intelligent automation reduces manual intervention, ensures consistent quality, and enables scalable manufacturing of precision gears for humanoid robotics.
