Facts

• Segment: End Effectors
• Country: United States
• Founded: 1988
• Website: https://barrett.com/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Events
• Operations / Deployments
• Team
• Context tags
• Customers and deployments
• Sources

Summary

Barrett Technology develops robotic manipulation hardware, including the BH8-series BarrettHand and Barrett medical robot systems. The BarrettHand is a self-contained three-finger programmable grasper used by research and automation teams that need flexible end-of-arm manipulation.

Market context

Barrett Technology supplies dexterous robotic hands and motion-control hardware used for robotic manipulation, research and medical robotics.

Products

• BarrettHand BH8-282

Facts

• Website: https://barrett.com/
• HQ: Newton, Massachusetts, United States
• Founded: 1988
• Segment: End Effectors

Events

• 2009-09-02 - Partnership - Barrett Technology licenses Harvard SDM Hand technology - The SDM Hand was developed by Robert D. Howe and Aaron Dollar.
• 2009-05-13 - Production Milestone - Barrett reports record first-quarter WAM arm sales - The company said Q1 2009 was its best quarter in 83 quarters.
• 2009-02-23 - Production Milestone - Barrett more than doubles WAM shipments in 2008 - The company described 2008 as a record year for WAM shipments.

Operations / Deployments

• 2009-02-23 - Production Milestone - Barrett more than doubles WAM shipments in 2008 - The company described 2008 as a record year for WAM shipments.

Team

• Bill Townsend - Founder, President and CEO - Founded Barrett in 1988 and shaped its robot arm, hand and drive-control technology base.

Context tags

• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Barrett Technology sources describe dexterous manipulation for robotics or robot-adjacent manipulation systems.
• Robotic hands - Capability - Barrett Technology sources describe robotic hands for robotics or robot-adjacent manipulation systems.
• End effectors - Stack Layer - Barrett Technology sources describe end effectors for robotics or robot-adjacent manipulation systems.

Customers and deployments

• Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2009-05-13 - Barrett reports record first-quarter WAM arm sales - source posture: Company Disclosed
• Production Milestone - 1 source-backed production milestone - 2009-02-23 - Barrett more than doubles WAM shipments in 2008 - source posture: Company Disclosed