Robotics & Automation · Recorded milestone
Harmonic drive gear
Recorded year1957
C. Walton Musser's strain-wave gear packs a huge, backlash-free speed reduction into a small joint, and now sits in most robot arms and humanoids.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.