In the present research work the need of a Maintenance Free Bearings (MFB) is established. The paper presents preliminary friction calculations to highlight the ways to achieve free The existing technologies of well established free bearings are described. The hybridization of bearing technologies to achieve low cost free bearings has been exemplified. Finally a combination of passive magnetic repulsion and hydrodynamics has been proposed and recommended as source terms to develop free Keywords—Journal Bearing, Passive Magnetic Bearing, Active Magnetic Bearing, Hybrid Bearing, Maintenance Free Bearing I. Int ro d uct io n Bearing is a system that support, guides and reduces the friction between relatively moving machine parts. Bearings are necessary evil for almost every (i.e. agriculture, automotive, manufacturing, home appliance, marine, aerospace, electronic, medical, electric power, oil, construction, etc.) industry. The evils of bearing are often minimized by reducing friction losses that occurs during support/guidance and zeroing the wear of bearing surfaces. The un-ending objective of bearing design is to extend bearing life so that expenses and downtime of machinery can be minimized. Frequent replacement of bearings happens to be a practice in India. Many industries spend huge amount on bearing replacements, such huge expenditure on unproductive machine element necessitates development of maintenance free bearings. Through extensive research into extending bearing life, SKF (1) has discovered that about 60% of premature bearing failures can be contributed to poor fitting, inadequate lubrication and contamination. Therefore they introduced self- aligning (spherical) bearings that incorporate special sliding layers of modern materials which have very low friction. The SKF named these spherical bearings as Maintenance Free Bearings (MFB). The aim of the present article is to introduce the concept of MFB and recent development occurred in the area of MFB.