Company profile
Kinova
Kinova develops lightweight robotic arms for research, medical and assistive applications. Its JACO and Gen3 robot arms are used for manipulation, rehabili...
Facts
- Segment
- INDUSTRIAL
- Country
- CA
- Headquarters
- Boisbriand, Quebec
- Founded
- 2006
- Website
- https://www.kinovarobotics.com/
About Kinova
Gen3 is available with six or seven joints and integrates torque sensing, encoders and a controller within a lightweight arm. A one-kilohertz low-level control loop and ROS or ROS 2 interfaces give researchers access to position, velocity, torque and custom control for manipulation, teleoperation and AI experiments.
JACO is designed as an assistive arm mounted directly to a powered wheelchair. Users control it to reach, grasp, eat, drink and interact with household objects, turning Kinova’s compact actuation and safety architecture into a daily-living device rather than a laboratory manipulator.
Market context
ENABLEMENT
Summary
Type: Robot arm maker
Core: Gen3 / JACO
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Researchers
Products
- Gen3 — collaborative_robot
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- ATDev joins USD 41 million ARPA-H RAMMP robotic mobility program — 2025-11-06
- Kinova robotic arm used in ARGO glovebox demonstrator at Sellafield — 2025-07-28
- AtkinsRealis and Kinova extend nuclear robotics partnership — 2025-07-28
- COVVI demonstrates robotic hand applications at ICRA 2025 — 2025-05-23
- SNC-Lavalin and Kinova sign collaboration for nuclear glovebox robotics — 2020-07-17
- Kinova secures CAD25 million growth investment — 2017-09-28
- Clearpath becomes North American distributor for Kinova JACO arm — 2013-07-09