FAULHABER

A German micro-motor maker, one of the original inventors and top suppliers of coreless motors.

FAULHABER is a German family business founded in 1947 by Fritz Faulhaber, headquartered in Schönaich, Baden-Württemberg. Its best-known technology is the skew-wound, ironless rotor coil it patented in 1965 — what is commonly called a coreless motor today, with no iron core in the rotor, giving it small size, low inertia, and smooth rotation. Its products include miniature DC motors, brushless motors, stepper motors, linear motors, and matching precision gearheads, encoders, and drivers, used in medical devices, aerospace, optics, and robotics. Because a dexterous hand's fingers have very little room, they commonly use a coreless motor paired with a miniature lead screw or gearhead to drive each joint, and FAULHABER and Switzerland's maxon are the two leading international suppliers of this type of motor.

ExampleSome dexterous hands fit a small-diameter coreless motor into each finger, paired with a gearhead to drive the finger joint.

Also called

Dr. Fritz Faulhaber GmbH & Co. KG

Related

Coreless Motor · maxon · Dexterous Hand · Micro Lead Screw · Core Components

Sources

Wikipedia (de): Faulhaber (Unternehmen)
FAULHABER - About us

As of

2025