ATI Industrial Automation

A long-established US maker of six-axis force sensors and tool-changers for robot arms.

ATI Industrial Automation was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in Apex, North Carolina. It makes components mounted at the end of a robot arm: six-axis force/torque sensors (measuring force and torque along three axes each at once), tool changers, and crash protectors, serving both industrial and surgical robots. Its Nano and Mini series of six-axis force sensors are common in research, and many papers on contact-rich manipulation, force control, and assembly use them to measure the forces at the end effector. In 2021, the US precision-technology company Novanta announced it was acquiring ATI for about $172 million.

ExampleIn a peg-in-hole assembly experiment, an ATI six-axis force sensor is mounted between the arm's flange and the gripper to read contact forces in real time during insertion.

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ATI

Related

Six-Axis Force/Torque Sensor · Tool Changer · Force Control · Contact-rich Manipulation · End Effector

Sources

Novanta acquiring ATI Industrial Automation for $172M (The Robot Report)
Novanta Announces Agreement to Acquire ATI

As of

2021-12