GeKu was established by joint owners John Hudson and Nigel Richardson in 1983, initially to provide service, programming and support for Cincinnati Robot users. 

With today's technology, inertia matching isn't the requirement it once was to design a servo-based machine. However, when tuning a system to minimise the inertia mismatch, wider requirements remain in order optimise an application's motion control performance, as Gerard Bush, motion engineer at Intelligent Motion Control (INMOCO), explains.