Kinova
Cobot manufacturer · Canada
Canadian maker of lightweight robot arms that began with the JACO assistive arm for wheelchair users. Its Gen3 arm is widely used in research, and the company sells arms for medical, nuclear and industrial applications.
Kinova is a Canada-based collaborative robot maker, founded in 2006 and headquartered in Boisbriand, Quebec. It is privately held. Product lines include Gen3, Gen3 lite, Link 6, JACO assistive arm. It appears in the directory's Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Manufacturers (21 companies) list.
- Headquarters
- Boisbriand, Quebec, Canada
- Founded
- 2006
- Ownership
- Private
- Robot types
- Cobots
Products
- Gen3
- Gen3 lite
- Link 6
- JACO assistive arm
Kinova coverage
- Meta Data Center Robots: Watney, Kinova, ABB Pilots Advance AI Ops — Meta is testing robots from Watney Robotics, Kinova, and ABB at its Altoona, Iowa and New Albany, Ohio data centers for cable swaps, server power cycling, and h
Directory categories
- Collaborative Robot (Cobot) Manufacturers — 21 companies
Similar manufacturers
- ABB Robotics — Switzerland · founded 1988 — Robotics division of Swiss-Swedish engineering group ABB, whose predecessor ASEA launched one of the first all-electric microprocessor-controlled industrial robots in 1974.
- Agile Robots — Germany · founded 2018 — Munich-based spin-off of the German Aerospace Center (DLR) building force-controlled robot arms and AI-driven automation systems.
- AUBO Robotics — China · founded 2015 — Beijing-based collaborative robot maker and one of China's early cobot specialists, selling lightweight six-axis arms for assembly, inspection and machine tending.
- DENSO Wave — Japan · founded 2001 — Robotics and automatic-identification subsidiary of automotive supplier DENSO.
- Dobot — China · founded 2015 — Shenzhen robot maker that started with desktop educational arms and grew into one of China's highest-volume cobot suppliers.
- Doosan Robotics — South Korea · founded 2015 — One of the world's largest collaborative robot makers, listed on the Korea Exchange in 2023.