Product profile
Gen3 lite
Kinova Gen3 lite is a lightweight six-degree-of-freedom robot arm for professional, academic and educational manipulation, with low-level control and Korte...
Facts
- Company
- Kinova
- Product type
- robotic_arm
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- manipulation
- Website
- https://www.kinovarobotics.com/fr/ressource/gen-3-lite-onepager
About Gen3 lite
Kinova Gen3 lite is a lightweight six-degree-of-freedom robot arm for professional, academic and educational manipulation, with low-level control and Kortex API integration.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Research robot arm
Core: Gen3 lite
Function: Lightweight robotic manipulation
Audience: Researchers and educators
Specifications
- control_frequency_khz
- 1 kHz low-level closed-loop control kHz
- control_modes
- Low-level position, velocity and motor current; high-level Cartesian and joint position/velocity
- degrees_of_freedom
- Six degrees of freedom axes
- interfaces
- USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi; Kortex API supports Windows, Linux, ROS 1, ROS 2, C++, Python and MATLAB
- ip_rating
- IP22
- max_cartesian_speed_cm_s
- Maximum Cartesian translation speed 25 cm/s cm/s
- operating_temperature_c
- 0–40 °C °C
- payload_kg
- Payload 500 g kg
- power_supply_v
- 21–30 V DC; 24 V nominal V DC
- power_w
- Average power 20 W W
- reach_mm
- Maximum reach 760 mm mm
- sensors
- Position, current, voltage and temperature sensing
- weight_kg
- Weight 5.4 kg kg
Operations
- Environment
- research_lab, education, indoor, industrial_robotics
- Primary user
- researcher, robotics_developer, educator
- Role
- manipulation_research, robotics_education, prototype_assembly
- Interaction model
- developer_programmed, api_controlled, teleoperated
- Mobility class
- fixed_arm
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Kinova and RTI demonstrate KIMA clinical integration — 2026-06-17
- 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