ROBOTIS (Dynamixel)Actuators and joint modules · South Korea
Supplier · actuators and joint modules
ROBOTIS (Dynamixel)
ROBOTIS makes the DYNAMIXEL smart servos that power many small humanoids and research arms, plus its own OP3 humanoid and AI Worker semi-humanoid. No outside humanoid maker's supply deal was confirmed in the sources reviewed.
- Category
- Actuators and joint modules
- Country
- South Korea
- Founded
- 1999
- Reported customers
- —Not published
- Robots
- 16Name it in their parts
- Listed
- 108490 (KOSDAQ)Stock market
What it makes
From the company's own description and the sources below.
- Makes
- DYNAMIXEL smart servo actuators, robot hands and humanoid research platforms.
- Parts
- Joint actuator module
- Tier
- Parts and modules
- Founded
- 1999
- Listed
- 108490 (KOSDAQ)
- Products
- DYNAMIXEL-Y, DYNAMIXEL-P, DYNAMIXEL-X, ROBOTIS OP3, AI Worker, HX5-D20 hand
Named in robots' parts lists
Quotes are from each robot's parts profile, which links its sources.
AI Sapiens (K0)ROBOTIS · 2026Commercial“23 DoF (5 per arm, 6 per leg, 1 waist) driven by ROBOTIS's in-house DYNAMIXEL-Q quasi-direct-drive actuators: 14 QM-060 and 9 QM-080, with 12:1, 16:1 or 20:1 reductions.”
AI WorkerROBOTIS · 2025Commercial“ROBOTIS DYNAMIXEL servos throughout: DYNAMIXEL-Y for arm joints 1-6 and the lift, DYNAMIXEL-P for arm joint 7, DYNAMIXEL-X in the head.”
Olaf (free-roaming robotic character)Walt Disney Imagineering / Disney Research · 2025Pilot use“Unitree and Dynamixel actuators.”
RH5DFKI Robotics Innovation Center · 2021Retired“34 DoF with series-parallel hybrid actuation: high-torque BLDC RoboDrive motors with Harmonic Drive gears for shoulders, torso yaw, hip yaw/roll, elbow and wrist roll, and BLDC-plus-ball-screw linear drives in parallel mechanisms for hip pitch, torso pitch/roll, knees and ankles (17 HarmonicDrive un”
NimbRo-OP2XUniversity of Bonn (Autonomous Intelligent Systems group) · 2018Research“34 Robotis Dynamixel XM-540-W270-R smart actuators for 18 joints (12.9 Nm stall torque, 37 rpm);”
MoxiDiligent Robotics · 2018Commercial“Kinova Jaco2 arm, Maxon brushed DC motors and Dynamixel motors;”
SophiaHanson Robotics · 2016Research“Servos throughout: in the head and face five Dynamixel XM430 and 23 Xpert servos, eyes two Hitec HS-65MG, neck three XM430, and per arm a mix of Dynamixel MX64/MX106/XM430, Xpert and MKS servos.”
THORMANG3ROBOTIS · 2016Commercial“29 DoF from DYNAMIXEL-P (PH series) actuators: 10 x 200 W PH54-200, 11 x 100 W PH54-100 and 8 x 20 W PH42-020 (updated to DYNAMIXEL-P in June 2019).”
Surena IIIUniversity of Tehran, Center for Advanced Systems and Technologies (CAST) · 2015Retired“ROBOTIS Dynamixel AX and MX servos in the upper body.”
TOROGerman Aerospace Center (DLR) · 2013Research“25 motor drive units based on DLR light-weight-robot technology in the arms, legs and hip, plus two Dynamixel servos in the neck;”
Poppy HumanoidInria Flowers Laboratory (now Poppy Station) · 2012Research“25 Robotis Dynamixel smart servos;”
BrunoTU Darmstadt (Darmstadt Dribblers) and Hajime Research Institute · 2010Retired“21 DoF (6 per leg, 3 per arm, 1 waist, 2 neck) using 18 Dynamixel RX-28 and three RX-64 servos.”
DARwIn-OPROBOTIS (with Virginia Tech, University of Pennsylvania and Purdue University) · 2010Discontinued“20 DoF (6 per leg, 3 per arm, 2 neck), each joint a DYNAMIXEL MX-28T servo with contactless absolute encoder.”
TUlipDelft University of Technology · 2008Retired“16 motors: 12 Maxon 60 W brushed DC motors (compliant, force-controlled) and 4 Dynamixel servomotors.”
ZenoHanson Robotics · 2007Research“Later research version: 36 DoF (arms 12, legs 12, waist 1, neck 3, face 8) using Dynamixel RX-64 servos in legs, hips and shoulders, RX-28 servos in the waist, and Hitec HS-65MG plus Cirrus micro servos to move the Frubber face.”
KasparUniversity of Hertfordshire · 2005Research“Dynamixel AX-12A smart servos and RC servos;”
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