Franka Research 3

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Overview:

  • 7 Degrees of freedom
  • Precise position, velocity and torque control
  • Control frequency of 1kHz
  • 3 kg payload
  • Interchangeable grippers (parallel ...)
  • Torque sensor on each joint
  • Possibility to add a camera to the wrist
  • Rigid workbench and well modeled environment
  • Highly customizable through large variety anchor points (for external cameras, objects, ...)

Main usages:

  • Contact interaction

Current status: Usable

Publications
Frictional Contact-Implicit Inverse Dynamics via Complementarity-Constrained Optimization
Pierre Fabre, Etienne Ménager, Antoine Bambade, Wilson Jallet, Alberto de Marchi, Justin Carpentier
ICRA, 2026

Manipulation Computer Vision Machine Learning Contact Estimation Torque control