Neuronics AG - Linux Robot


	Katana, the Linux Robot

The Katana Robotic Arm comes with a powerful embedded controlboard running Linux with Xenomai Hard Real Time extensions and with a strong commitment to openness. This entails possibilities for many fields of application with requirements that could hitherto only be met by developing highly expensive custom engineered robotic systems.

A New Grade Of Openness

Our commitment is to provide a robotics system with no limitations as to its versatility and adaptability. By allowing full access to the embedded Linux controlboard and providing the respective APIs, the robot can be explored, extended and tailored to requirements that could otherwise never find a matching product on the market.
This is absolutely new and unique in industrial grade robotics.

Industry

Neuronics' first and foremost aim in developing the Katana Robot was to meet all requirements for industrial applications, because we are convinced that the demands in the industrial environment are the touchstone that defines the system's robustness, stability and high availability. By adding openness to that commitment, the Katana now brings a degree of versatility that is without peer in industrial grade robotics.

Research

Conventional robotic arms are mostly bound to closed and proprietary control systems and protocols that leave little scope for research purposes. On the other hand, the road to conducting robotics research on custom engineered systems has high hurdles in finding research grants and organizing the research project's budgeting. The Katana with its open system, interfaces, protocols and control API has all windows wide open and is definitely affordable. You can just dive into it.

Educational and Didactic

The Katana is ideal for or educational and didactic purposes in robotics. It comes with all the necessary interfaces to integrate it into any field.
Core features in robotics like for instance the inverse kinematics algorithms are open source and can thus be explored and even extended and adapted at leisure. Due to its openness, the insight into the architecture of a robotics system and its interfaces can be unconditional and complete.

...and Secure

By bringing security into the cooperation with humans and by not requiring a safety fence in operational mode, the Katana System has an unique advantage over conventional robotics that can only be operated in awkward environments where strict safety measures have to be met. Thus, together with its unique commitment to openness with embedded Linux, the Katana is less a machine than more like the friendly guy next door lending you a helping hand, and bringing lots of useful surprises in his unfailing and inexhaustible toolbox.