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Mechanical design teams tasked with creating a humanoid robot have a range of choices that enable compact and mobile systems. This section presents a few of the available gear reduction types useful to designers and briefly explores design constraints and reasons for using each.

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  1. Motiv Space Systems, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Christopher McQuin

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  1. Intuitive Surgical, Sunnyvale, CA, USA

    Ambarish Goswami

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Prahlad Vadakkepat

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McQuin, C. (2019). Transmissions. In: Goswami, A., Vadakkepat, P. (eds) Humanoid Robotics: A Reference. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6046-2_123

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