Interchangeable with Harmonic Drive CSF and CSD.
- Sizes
- 14 and 20
- Ratios
- 50:1 to 100:1
- Lot size
- 10 to 500 sets, custom flanges
- Lead time
- 6 to 8 weeks
Made by robots, for robots.
Bar
US 4340 alloy-steel bar.
Turn
Cup blank turned on a CNC lathe, wall under 1 mm.
Hob
A few hundred teeth cut on a fine-module hobber.
Treat
Hardening, cryo and honing at outside shops.
Measure
Every part checked on a gear measuring machine. Corrections go back to the hob program.
We want to create a set of machines that can build a complete copy of itself from local materials.
This mission is necessary for space colonization, rebuilding after disasters, industry in remote places, and cheaper manufacturing everywhere.
“There exists a critical size below which the process of synthesis is degenerative, but above which the phenomenon of synthesis, if properly arranged, can become explosive.”
John von Neumann, The General and Logical Theory of Automata, 1948