Hexapods provide extraordinary flexibility for demanding multi-axis motion, positioning, and alignment applications. Hexapods provide all degrees of freedom and are available for loads from 5 - 1000lbs. Ideal for precision applications in optics, photonics, aerospace engineering, automation, and life sciences.

See a plethora of precision motion solutions for applications including Semiconductor Manufacturing, Laser Drilling, Photonics Alignment and Optical Metrology.

Air bearings are often overlooked due to limited awareness of their advantages. Despite higher initial costs, they offer superior ROI over time with frictionless, maintenance-free, wear-free operation, higher precision, and cleanroom compatibility. Check out our curated articles on air bearing performance and applications for informed technology choices tailored to your needs.

Laser drilling precision and throughput are limited by several factors including optical distortion, tracking accuracy, acceleration limits of motion stages, and focus control performance. A new piezo-based control approach is designed to enhance the precision and accuracy.

Networks of Low Earth Orbit Satellites circle the earth to provide high-speed internet all over the world. The satellites are connected through accurately positioned laser beams via fast steering mirrors (FSMs). Laser communication provides higher data rates, requires less power, and offers higher security compared to traditional radio frequency transmission. 

Traditional wafer slicing techniques waste a great deal of precious material when slicing SiC ingots into wafers. This video shows how precision motion systems and controls enable laser cutting and slicing, increasing yield and throughput significantly.

Hexapods, six-legged parallel-kinematic machines, can solve many complex positioning and alignment tasks in automotive and industrial automation applications. The latest controller generation connects directly to EtherCat Masters and PLCs. Features include a programmable pivot point, sub-micron precision, and load capacities from 2kg to 2000kg

Useful for precision motion control and nanopositioning, this frictionless guiding and propulsion system is solely based on magnetic fields by electrically controllable coils. In addition to linear motion, it can also control lateral motion, vertical motion and pitch, yaw, and roll. Applications include semicon test and metrology, photonics, optics, and high-resolution microscopy.

The video shows a compact, direct-drive 200x200mm XY-gantry in a fast LED array scan and align application. This miniature gantry system is based on PI’s high-speed V-855 linear motor modules and an EtherCat®-based industrial motion controller with special gantry algorithms integrated firmware for fast photonics scan / align applications.

Piezo motors have become mainstream precision driving elements in industrial and commercial applications. Learn more about the three main types of piezo motors: resonance-motors (ultrasonic drives), inertia-motors (stick-slip principle), and piezo-walk drives.