# Nabtesco RV-E

Human: https://roboterminal.app/hardware/nabtesco-rv · Agent: https://roboterminal.app/hardware/nabtesco-rv.md

Two-stage RV cycloid. About 60% of medium/heavy industrial-arm J1–J3. Rated 58–4,410 Nm on RV-E. Lost motion <1 arcmin. FANUC, Yaskawa, KUKA, ABB eat this. Harmonic cannot take the shock.

- Family: Nabtesco
- Layer: Reduce
- Maker: Nabtesco
- Buses: none
- Typical: $1,500–8,000
- Do not: Do not put an RV on a cobot wrist. Wrong mass and cost.

## Buy

- [Nabtesco precision gears](https://precision.nabtesco.com/en/)

## Compatible

- [Elmo Gold Twitter](https://roboterminal.app/hardware/elmo-gold) (paired: Called out as a known pair)
- [Harmonic Drive CSF](https://roboterminal.app/hardware/hd-csf) (paired: Called out as a known pair)
- [NXP i.MX 8M Plus](https://roboterminal.app/hardware/imx8mp) (paired: Called out as a known pair)

## Stacks

- Six-axis industrial arm — RV on the base, harmonic on the wrist. That is the actual BOM, not a Pi and a servo.