🇩🇪 Germany ・ Munich

Franka Robotics

The 7-axis torque-controlled arm standard in AI research

Founded: 2016
Robots: 1
Case studies: 1

Overview

German maker of research arms, part of Agile Robots. Franka Research 3 offers joint torque sensing and low-level control via FCI and is used by labs worldwide to collect data for robot foundation models.

Strengths

Wide adoption in robot-learning research
Low-level control via ROS/FCI
Public reseller pricing

Robots we can source

Collaborative arm

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Franka Research 3

7-DoF research arm with 3 kg payload, 855 mm reach and torque sensors in every joint.

Reseller price (est.)

≈ ¥4.4M

Case studies

Education & researchIn production🇺🇸 United States ・ 2024

Used to collect the large-scale DROID robot dataset

DROID, a multi-institution real-world manipulation dataset, was collected on a common Franka arm platform across homes, offices and other settings, and has become a standard resource for foundation-model research.

Franka Roboticsdroid-dataset.github.io

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