Hardware

Kinova

Kinova is a Canadian robotics manufacturer known for lightweight, low-power robotic arms, including the assistive Jaco arm and the Gen3 research platform, a seven-DOF arm with integrated joint torque sensing and an optional wrist-mounted vision module. Its arms are widespread in academic manipulation research and appear in multiple public datasets and benchmark setups.

Why it matters for physical AI

Accessible, torque-sensing research arms like Kinova's lowered the hardware barrier for manipulation learning research, and their prevalence makes them a recurring embodiment in cross-robot datasets.