Manufacturing Solutions for Key Drive Components in Humanoid Robots

The drive technology of humanoid robots presents a unique challenge: A single system combines different gear concepts - strain wave gears, planetary gears, and linear actuators such as planetary roller screw drives. Each of these designs requires its own workpieces, with precision requirements that differ significantly from one another.

What they have in common: form and position tolerances in the single-digit micrometer range, thin-walled or delicate geometries, complex tooth profiles, and elliptical contours - all while facing increasing demands for series production capability and cost-effectiveness.

This is exactly where our webinar comes in. Watch it now to learn about the workpieces that determine the performance of humanoid robots and how those can be machined:

• Circular splines with high-precision internal gear teeth
• Flexsplines as thin-walled, flexible shaft gears
• Wave generators with elliptical functional contours
• Planetary gears for compact, high-torque gearboxes
• Planetary roller lead screws for linear actuators

You’ll learn how to establish end-to-end process chains for these components - from soft turning through hard turning and grinding to gear cutting. Using real-world workpiece examples, we demonstrate how complete-machining within a production line eliminates sources of error from workpiece circulation, thereby ensuring the required tolerances can be reliably achieved. And we explain how cycle times can be significantly reduced through the targeted combination of manufacturing processes - such as pre-milling and finish grinding.

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