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Franka Robotics

The 7-axis torque-controlled arm standard in AI research

Founded
2016
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Case studies
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Listing
Private (part of Agile Robots AG, acquired in November 2023)
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Franka Research 3

Overview

German maker of research arms, part of Agile Robots. Franka Research 3 offers joint torque sensing and low-level control via FCI and is used by labs worldwide to collect data for robot foundation models. It built its 1,000th FR3 in February 2025. It has shown the dual-arm FR3 Duo and the Mobile FR3 Duo as prototypes, and demonstrated NVIDIA GR00T N1.6 at CES 2026.

Strengths

  • Wide adoption in robot-learning research
  • Low-level control via ROS/FCI
  • Public reseller pricing

Latest news

Researched as of November 3, 2026. Each item links to its source.

  1. Opened a new Munich office with 5,500 m² of robotics labs to expand R&D.

    Source: franka.de

  2. At CES 2026 it gave the first public demo of NVIDIA GR00T N1.6 on Mobile FR3 Duo, released Isaac Sim USD files for FR3/FR3 Duo, and announced AI data-collection services.

    Source: franka.de

  3. Debuted FR3 Duo and Mobile FR3 Duo prototypes at automatica 2025: 7-DoF, 3 kg arms; the mobile base reaches 1.75 m/s and carries NVIDIA AGX Orin.

    Source: roboticsandautomationnews.com

  4. Made Agile Robots' Diana 7 arm compatible with the Franka Control Interface (FCI) and added it to the lineup.

    Source: franka.de

  5. Produced its 1,000th Franka Research 3 at Agile Robots' Kaufbeuren plant in Germany.

    Source: franka.de

Robots we can source

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Franka Research 3

7-DoF research arm with 3 kg payload, 855 mm reach and torque sensors in every joint.

Reseller price (est.)
≈ ¥4.4M

Case studies

Education & researchIn production🇺🇸 United States ・ 2024

Used to collect the large-scale DROID robot dataset

DROID, a multi-institution real-world manipulation dataset, was collected on a common Franka arm platform across homes, offices and other settings, and has become a standard resource for foundation-model research.

Franka Roboticsdroid-dataset.github.io

SOURCES

  1. 1.https://franka.de/
  2. 2.https://droid-dataset.github.io/
  3. 3.https://www.therobotreport.com/agile-robots-acquires-franka-emika/
  4. 4.https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000026.000162992.html
  5. 5.https://franka.de/news/franka-ces-2026-powering-the-future-of-embodied-ai
  6. 6.https://franka.de/news/franka-robotics-celebrates-production-of-1000th-fr3-robot

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