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Franka Robotics is a robotics company founded 2016, based in Germany, developing 8 robots primarily in the Cobot category.
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Franka Robotics is a German robotics company headquartered in Munich and founded in 2016. It makes collaborative, force-sensitive robot systems including the Panda cobot, Franka Production 3 (FP3), and Franka Research 3 / Franka SPARK for research and industrial automation use cases. The company operates globally and has been part of Agile Robots since 2023.
Company facts
- Legal name
- Franka Robotics GmbH
- HQ
- Munich, Germany
- Founded
- 2016 · 10 yrs
- Employees
- 100
- Website
- franka.de
RoboScore
69.22 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Very strong evidence
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Milestones
IEEE described the company’s product family as Panda, FP-3, and FR-3.
Agile Robots acquired Franka Emika and kept its approximately 100-person staff.
Franka Emika was founded in Germany.
Press coverage
- Panda Arm
Oxford Robotics Institute
- Agile Robots acquires Franka Emika
The Robot Report
- The Franka Emika Robot
IEEE Xplore
Active products by Franka Robotics
8 shown| # | Category | Key specs | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Franka Emika Panda | Cobot | Payload 3 kg·Reach 1.3 m | $30K | 2017 | 72.4 |
| 2 |  | Franka Production 3 | Cobot | Payload 3 kg·Reach 855 mm | $30.6K | 2022 | 61.9 |
| 3 | .png) | Franka GELLO and Franka GELLO Duo | Industrial Arm | Repeatability ±0.1 mm·DOF 6 DOF | — | — | 55.3 |
| 4 |  | Franka Hand | Industrial Arm | Repeatability ±0.01 mm·DOF 12 DOF | — | — | 55.3 |
| 5 |  | Tactile Mobile Robot (TMR) | Warehouse AMR | — | — | — | 49.2 |
| 6 |  | Mobile FR3 Duo | Mobile Manipulator | — | — | — | 49.0 |
| 7 |  | Franka Research 3 Duo | Industrial Arm | Repeatability ±0.1 mm·DOF 7 DOF | — | — | 41.1 |
| 8 |  | Franka Research 3 (FR3) | Cobot | DOF 7 DOF | — | — | 30.9 |
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