Motiv Space Systems is a space robotics company that designs and builds robotic arms, motor controllers, and mechanisms for space applications. They provide innovative robotic systems for in-space servicing, assembly, and manufacturing (ISAM). Motiv's customers include NASA, JPL, and other space companies, and they contributed the robotic arm to the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. Associated keywords: space robotics, robotic arms, motor controllers, ISAM, NASA, JPL.
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Motiv Space Systems of Pasadena, California, provides the robotic arm system through a NASA Small Business Innovation Research Phase III award.
The Defense Innovation Unit selected Motiv Space Systems in 2022 to prototype satellite-servicing hardware for the Modularity for Space Systems program.
Motiv Space Systems designed and built key CADRE hardware elements at the company’s Pasadena, California, facility.
Motiv Space Systems custom-engineered a six-degree-of-freedom force-torque sensor for NASA/JPL’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover that operates at -135°C.
Motiv Space Systems builds motor controllers designed for extreme space environments including Earth orbit, deep space, and frigid lunar temperatures.
Motiv Space Systems designed and built the seven-foot-long, five-joint robotic arm mounted at the front of NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover.