Cone Drive

Cone Drive supplies precision gearing for robot joints, mobile bases and positioning axes. Harmonic strain-wave units provide high reduction ratios, low inertia and near-zero backlash in compact joints; TwinSpin cycloidal reducers add torsional stiffness and load capacity for heavier axes. DriveSpin packages cycloidal gearing as sealed servo actuators, while planetary and worm products cover broader industrial motion requirements.

MoveSpin integrates traction and steering around cycloidal drives for autonomous mobile robots and automated guided vehicles, including low-profile, continuously rotating and differential-steering configurations. In humanoid systems, harmonic units suit compact wrists, knees and hip joints, while cycloidal reducers address higher-load waist and shoulder axes. Cone Drive manufactures and customises these families within Timken's motion-control portfolio and validates reducers through cyclic, inertial, torque, thermal, vibration, efficiency and accelerated-life testing at its Michigan development laboratory.