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Kinova Link 6

Kinova Link 6

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OVERVIEW

The user-friendly and low deployment cost cobot

Whether you are a small, medium, or large business, Link 6 is designed to grow with you. Featuring a rich interface on its wrist, feed-through of power and data, optional Gigabit Ethernet adapter, and optional wrist vision module – Kinova's newest robot helps you start producing faster. Link 6 is a flexible work companion. Easy to program, choose the end effector that best suits your needs, and program a new sequence to begin your automation journey. Small batch sizes or large product variety are manufacturing challenges Link 6 can help you overcome easily. Here are some of Link 6 arm main features:

  • Superior hand-guiding capabilities*
  • Lightweight yet robust enough for long-lasting industrial activity
  • Software support for Robotiq and OnRobot brand end effectors
  • Feed-through power and data make cable management a breeze
  • User-friendly interface enables time- and cost-efficient integration

*Compared to market-leading competitor

 

FEATURES:

A wrist that moves you

Increase your efficiency and productivity with Kinova's Link 6. The teach pendant in addition to the buttons on the wrist save you time when it comes to manual hand-guiding and trajectory planning. An interactive colored ring annunciator provides an intuitive visual status for constant awareness of the operational state. An integrated force-torque sensor provides the means to perform complex assembly tasks.

  • Move the robot with the push of your finger
  • Quickly add position snapshot
  • Power and data are directly available on the wrist

 

A small box that packs a lot

A state-of-the-art controller, built on the latest connectivity technologies, delivers the growth capability you need to stay ahead of the competition. Compact yet powerful, harness its unparalleled processing power on a daily basis through your production lines. An innovative plugin development environment will ensure plugins made by you or third-party collaborators are running in parallel with the controller but separate from its core. Not only does this prevent the safety functions from being affected but also makes sure the controller and arm integrity don't become compromised. Achieve superior agility by being able to deploy and redeploy Link 6 on the field through a broad range of applications and scenarios.

  • Processor: Intel® Core™ i7
  • Memory: DDR4 - 8 GB / SSD - 128 GB
  • Optional GPU to provide AI capabilities

 

Easy programming and flexibility

Whether you're an end-user, OEM, or integrator, you don't need to be a roboticist to make Link 6 do what you want. Its programming interface, running on KINOVA KORTEX™, has been designed to reduce deployment time and costs by offering an intuitive and user-friendly experience. This graphical user interface is available through the touchscreen teach pendant or via a standard desktop version on a browser for all your programming needs.

  • Drag and drop visual programming
  • Teaching is quick and easy, no previous programming knowledge or experience is required

 

TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS


 Degrees of freedom 6
Payload (full-range, at 200 mm from wrist) 6.0 kg / 13.2 lbs
Maximum reach 1000 mm / 39.4 in
Maximum cartesian translation speed 1.65 m/s / 5.41 ft/s
Power supply voltage and frequency 110-240 VAC, 50 Hz - 60 Hz
Ambient operating temperature 0 °C to 40 °C / 32 °F to 104 °F
Arm weight (with 5 m cable) 23.45 kg / 51.7 lbs
Arm materials Aluminum, ABS plastic
Installation orientation All
Robot base footprint diameter 149 mm / 5.86 in



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