Barrett Technology
About
About Barrett Technology
Barrett Technology develops torque-controlled robotic arms, dexterous hands and compact motor-control electronics. The cable-driven WAM arm is available with four or seven degrees of freedom and is naturally backdrivable, allowing force control through low-friction, near-zero-backlash joints. High-payload configurations carry up to eight kilograms on the four-axis arm or six kilograms on the seven-axis version, while the open control architecture supports manipulation, haptics, teleoperation and robotics research.
The BH8-282 BarrettHand is a self-contained, 980-gram, three-finger gripper with eight controllable axes that adapts to differently shaped objects without changing tools. It connects over serial or CAN bus and can be paired with WAM or other robot arms. Barrett also supplies Puck motor controllers and the three-axis Burt platform for upper-limb rehabilitation research, including sensorimotor training, force-feedback studies, virtual environments and master-slave control. The product family spans research components, integrated manipulation systems and clinical rehabilitation equipment.
Products
Team
- Matt Rigby - President and Chief Commercial Officer - Rigby leads commercial strategy for Barrett medical and robotics products, including go-to-market work around rehabilitation robotics.
- CJ Valle - President and Chief Operating Officer - Valle leads Barrett production, engineering, finance, regulatory, HR, and product-development operations across drive systems and medical robotics.
- Bill Townsend - CEO and Chairman - Townsend created Barrett's core drive technologies, including servomotor controllers and gearless transmissions used in robotic arms and hands.
Timeline
Events
- 2009-09-02 - Partnership - Barrett Technology licenses Harvard SDM Hand technology
The SDM Hand was developed by Robert D. Howe and Aaron Dollar. The robotic hand uses flexible finger joints to conform to objects and handle positioning errors. Barrett described the license as part of its robotic manipulator portfolio for emerging applications.
Source - 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. Sales were led by Puck-enabled WAM robotic arm systems. Barrett framed the result as a commercial milestone for its manipulator business.
Source - 2009-02-23 - Production Milestone - Barrett more than doubles WAM shipments in 2008
The company described 2008 as a record year for WAM shipments. Customers bought more complete systems with BarrettHand or gimbal options. Barrett also cut extended-service contract pricing after durability gains in the field.
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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.