Loss of machining efficiency, part repair, and replacement of mechanical components due to friction and wear is a recurring problem for performance industrial system applications. Recent studies on surface modification and micro-scale texturing have shown successful results in reducing friction and wear of lubricated surfaces. By acting as lubricant reservoirs and wear particle receptacles, micro-scale artificial surface textures positively influence lubrication regimes. In the present experimental study, a Stribeck curve is generated to compare the tribological properties of untextured and textured surfaces created by modulation-assisted machining. Aluminum 6061-T6 disks are mated with high-speed steel pins on a pin-on-disk tribometer configuration for varying speed and texture depth and density. The results suggest that the textured surfaces produced by modulation-assisted machining accelerate the appearance of the elasto-hydrodynamic regime, while also reducing friction by 56% and wear by almost 90%. The enhanced friction and wear reduction were obtained under the lower speeds studied. In general, the disk with shallower dimples presented lower values of friction under the conditions studied. No major differences were found for textures with different dimple densities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]