Kraft Telerobotics has delivered a custom engineered manipulator arm to the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) for use on their ultra deep diving ROV "Nereus". Using
its on board Kraft arm, Nereus will perform a wide variety of manipulative tasks at the
bottom of the Mariana Trench, more than 36,000 feet deep. Read more...
Kraft Telerobotics, Inc. delivers the first ever commercially available demolition robot with master/slave force feedback control. Read more...
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) has contracted Kraft TeleRobotics to design and build a custom engineered manipulator arm for their Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle (HROV). Read more...
The Defence Research & Development of Canada (DRDC) has taken delivery of a new Kraft TeleRobotics Predator force feedback manipulator system. Read more...
Magazine Archives
2006
Sea Technology, October 2006
"An Exploration into How to Excavate a Shipwreck in 170 Meters' Water Depth" Read more...
2003
National Geographic, May 2004
"Ballard's plan calls for remotely controlled vehicles to carry out the careful excavation of deep-sea wrecks, and for their activities to be broadcast live via satellite to scholars and students back on the beach over Internet2, the next-generation network not yet available to the public." Read more...
2003
Underwater Magazine, May-June 2003
"Without the right tooling package for a given subsea job, that shiny new $3 million work class ROV is just a really expensive underwater camera. We rounded up the leaders in ROV tooling from around the world to detail their latest offerings, with an introduction by Steve Harbour of Kraft TeleRobotics." View PDF
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2002
Ocean News & Technology, March 2002
"As the next generation manipulator for deep ocean work, Predator II is the culmination of 20 plus years of experience and everything Kraft" Read more...
2001
Underwater Magazine, March-April 2001
"Kraft TeleRobotics has introduced a unique, six-degree-of-freedom, miniature force feedback master controller, the Kraft mini-master, which is well suited for use within the confined operating environment typically found in manned undersea vehicle or an ROV's operator control van." Read more...
2000
International Ocean Systems, July-August 2000
"Kraft manipulator will turn Terra Nova's knobs" Read more...
Ocean News & Technology, November-December 2000
A Kraft magazine ad. Read more...
1999
Ocean News & Technology, March-April 1999
"Manipulators or "arms" are an essential part of any work ROV." Read more...
Ocean News & Technology, September-October 1999
"In the early 1980s, Kraft focused entirely on developing manufacturing undersea manipulator systems for use off-shore, and between 1983 and 1988 Kraft produced a variety of very successful systems." Read more...
1998
Underwater Magazine, Summer 1998
"Force feedback allows the operator to control the amount of force the manipulator can exert at the work site." Read more...
Utility Safety, June 1998
"The M5-A Scout remotely-operated inspection vehicle embodies all the necessary components for doing vault inspections." Read more...
Ocean News & Technology, September-October 1998
"Raptor is a very rugged, powerful, high-dexterity manipulator for applications where both size and weight as well as lift and reach are important." Read more...
1997
Ocean News & Technology, May-June 1997
"Kraft has produced a new arm called Predator." Read more...
Kansas City Business Journal, April 4-10 1997
"Using software nearly six years in the designing, the Kraft robotic arm electronically simulates the pressure an operator would feel picking up a nearly 100 pound crossbar for a utility pole or hitting a buried pipe with a gripper." Read more...
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1994
Popular Mechanics, April 1994
"Kraft TeleRobotics has developed the M5-A Scout to inspect underground transformer vaults if dangerous conditions are suspected." Read more...
1993
Equipment World, May 1993
"Kraft TeleRobotics' Haz-Trak is a remote-controlled excavator that can be controlled up to one mile away with the console. As the operator moves the controller, the boom and bucket will move in the same manner." Read more...
Lift Equipment, August-September 1993
Utility company puts robotic arms to work. Read more...
Utility Construction & Maintenance, September-October 1993
"Current and potential use of telerobotics in the utility industry is a present actuality and a future reality." Read more...
Trailer Body Builders, October 1993
"Developed by Kraft TeleRobotics in Overland Park, Kansas, the robotic arms are directed through electroproportional hydraulic controls using fiber-optic signals." Read more...
Utility Construction & Maintenance, November-December 1993
"Kraft TeleRobotics presented the M5-A Scout remotely operated vehicle system for inspection and environmental monitoring purposes at Reach-All booth..." Read more...
1992
Nuclear Engineering International, January 1992
"Force feedback enables a single operator to use the HAZ-TRAK remotely operated excavator with ease at nuclear waste sites and during decommissioning of nuclear facilities." Read more...
LIFE Magazine, March 1992
"For 131 years one of the world's richest treasures - perhaps a billion dollars in fine gold - lat lost and out of reach in the frigid, lightless depths of the Atlantic, entombed in the wreck of a once elegant 19th century steamer, the S.S. Central America." Read more...
Popular Mechanics, June 1992
"A remote-control shovel lets its operator feel what's happening from miles away, making the removal of hazardous waste simpler and safer than ever before." Read more...
Utility Construction & Maintenance, June-July 1992
"In 1988, Kraft TeleRobotics introduced a revolutionary new force feedback manipulator system for undersea use." Read more...
Popular Mechanics, September 1992
"Many of Japan's electric companies aren't using bucket trucks anymore. Instead, their linemen work from enclosed, windowed cabins fitted with twin telerobotic manipulator arms." Read more...
Popular Mechanics, December 1992
"Kraft TeleRobotics believes its new Haz-Trak excavator will bring the historically low-tech construction industry into the space age." Read more...
1991
Lift Equipment, February-March 1991
"Japanese company develops telerobotic 'bucket truck'." Read more...
HazMat News, March 1, 1991
"Kraft TeleRobotics of Overland Park, KS, has announced that it has adapted its bilateral force feedback technology for remote control of a hydraulically powered excavator and material handling system called HAZ-TRAK." Read more...
Machine Design, March 21, 1991
"The hazardous job of cleaning up radioactive and chemical waste may soon be the responsibility of the remotely operated excavator dubbed Haz-Trak." Read more...
Military Robotics, January 1991
"A firm in Overland Park, Kan., has developed a remotely operated excavator and materials handling system that lets the operator "feel" the material he is handling." Read more...
Soils, May-June 1991
"New technology needed to remediate weapons manufacturing sites" Read more...
Hydraulics & Pneumatics, August 1991
"Telerobotic Haz-Trak system remotely controls downsized, 6800-lb excavator with maximum digging radius of 15 ft, 5 in., that can travel at speeds to 2 mph." Read more...
1990
NASA Spinoff, 1990
"Kraft TeleRobotics supplied a dual arm telerobot that has been installed in the Space Technology Center to test the new sensor technology and computer software." Read more...
1989
The Innovator, May 1989
"Founded in 1975 to supply the offshore oil industry with manipulator systems for underwater work, Kraft is repositioning its products to serve the nuclear and aerospace markets." Read more...
1988
Popular Mechanics, March 1988
"TOMCAT is designed to take the danger out of overhead transmission line repair." Read more...
