Servo Vendors
Servo Amplifiers
- Mark V Automation Servo amplifiers designed specifically for fixed and mobile PUMA robots
- Copley Controls
- Glentek
- Servo Systems Catalog house with several vendors, including power supplies and motor amplifiers. Some surplus components at good prices
- ISA Directory
Servo Cards
- Mark V Automation Servo control designed specifically for PUMA robots
- Servo To Go Low cost servo cards
- Quanser PCI servo cards
- Galil Motion Control
- Technology 80
Stepper Motors and Drives
Linear Actuators
- Linear Actuators Directory Listing of manufacturers
- Servo Systems Catalog house with several vendors, including power supplies and motor amplifiers. Some surplus components at good prices
- Motion Systems Ball screw actuators
- Exlar Way-cool planetary linear actuators with excellent performance
- Ultra Motion Mini ball screw actuators
- Danaher Precision Linear motors & slides, air bearing stages, dual-carriage stages
- Rockwell Automation, Anorad overview Linear motors and linear slides
- Moving Magnet Direct-Drive linear actuators
- Globe Motors Mostly gearmotors, but some linear actuators
Linear Encoders
- Search for Mercury encoders from MicroE Systems Modular encoders (linear or rotary heads and scales)
- Heidenhain Leader in high precision linear encoders
- Renishaw Linear encoders
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