Yad is Arabic for hand
YAD-01
A six-joint arm. Make it yours.
A controller that runs the robot and your programs.
Printed or machined, and open for quick service.
Reach, payload and price come with our reply.
The YAD series · Specifications, and the open designs it starts from
The YAD series.
One family of arms. Small ones run on servos; bigger ones on motors, belts and gearboxes.
YAD-01
Bench arm- Drive
- Smart servos
- Class
- Light: small parts, labs, teaching
- For
- Sorting, testing, learning by demonstration
YAD-02
Workcell arm- Drive
- Stepper motors, toothed belts, planetary gearboxes
- Class
- About 1 kg
- For
- Pick and place, machine tending, lab automation
YAD-03
Geared arm- Drive
- Brushless joint modules with planetary gearboxes
- Class
- About 2.5 to 3 kg
- For
- Heavier parts, longer reach, inspection and handling
Bigger than YAD-03, with seven joints: designed for the job.
Classes are what each model is designed for. Your quote gives the design figures; the measured ones come with the robot.
What is inside.
YAD-01 Arm
- Joints
- Six: base, shoulder, elbow, wrist flex, wrist roll, gripper
- Actuators
- Smart servos, chosen for your payload, each reporting position, load and temperature
- Control
- One controller for all six joints, over USB-C
- Power
- Low-voltage DC, from the mains or a battery
- Frame
- Printed or machined, made for where it works (below)
- Tool
- Two-finger gripper, or a suction cup
- Camera
- Wrist colour camera, optional
- Computer
- A controller; for advanced AI, an NVIDIA Jetson module or a comparable AI computer, in a desk box
- Software
- Open source. Every joint is yours to program
- Sizing
- Every joint drive to NASA-STD-5017B torque margins
- Torque, reach and payload
- Set by the servos your job needs, and given with your quote
Mobile base Add-on
- Drive
- Three omni wheels: it moves in any direction and turns on the spot
- Computer
- Onboard Linux computer; for advanced AI, an NVIDIA Jetson module or a comparable AI computer, on the battery
- Cameras
- Workspace and wrist colour cameras
- Power
- Rechargeable lithium battery
- Mounting
- Plates on a 20 mm grid
- Arm
- YAD-01, the same arm
Built for where it works
Every YAD-01 is made for one of three places. Choose it above.
Indoor
Labs, workshops, warehouses
- Frame
- Printed engineering plastic, or machined aluminium
- Sealing
- Open, for quick service
- Fixings
- Steel
Desert
Dust, sand and heat
- Frame
- Machined aluminium
- Sealing
- Sealed joints, filtered cooling
- Fixings
- Steel
Offshore
Salt air and spray
- Frame
- Machined aluminium, anodised and coated
- Sealing
- Sealed joints, coated electronics
- Fixings
- Stainless steel
Dust and water ratings are measured on our first build of each, and given with your quote.
Starts from open designs
- The armSO-101by TheRobotStudio, with Hugging Face
- The mobile baseLeKiwiby SIGRobotics at the University of Illinois
YAD-01 starts from these open designs, both under the Apache License 2.0. What we change is our own. Our thanks to both teams for publishing them.
We take the open designs' joints and drive, and choose every part for the job. The suction cup, the three builds and the colours are ours. NVIDIA and Jetson are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the U.S. and other countries.
Sized as a whole robot.
We do not sell parts. Every robot is sized, built and tested as one machine.
You give us the job
What it lifts or carries, how far it reaches or flies, how fast, and where it works.
We size every part
Motors, belts and gearboxes to NASA-STD-5017B torque margins; structure to NASA-STD-5001B factors of safety; power and computer to the work.
We simulate it
Flow, heat and load in our own solvers, on your site, before anything is cut.
We build and test the whole
Desert and Offshore builds are tested to selected MIL-STD-810H methods before delivery, at a lab your quote names. You get the measured figures with it.
Send us this robot.
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