Integrated Actuators for Humanoid Robots
From cars to humanoids: Stabilus and Synapticon are bringing integrated actuators into mass production.
Synapticon contributes the actuator’s intelligence, including software, functional safety, electronics and sensor design, and drive technology, while Stabilus contributes automotive-grade quality, mechanical design, sourcing, industrialization, manufacturing, assembly, and logistics in series production.
If you'd like to learn more about how our journey toward this goal is unfolding, where we stand today, and what's next on this exciting journey, stay tuned. We'll keep you up to date.
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What customers can expect
For our customers, this partnership means faster access to forward-looking technology, the highest quality standards, and solutions that help bridge the gap between innovation and real-world application. For Stabilus, this partnership is a natural next step in actively shaping the future of intelligent motion – with the clear goal of making robotics possible at scale. -
Where we come from
Stabilus brings strong credentials from the automotive industry: decades of experience in high-volume manufacturing, industrial excellence, and global production expertise. This strength is essential not only for developing innovative actuation solutions, but also for bringing them to market efficiently, at scale, and with consistently high quality. In this way, technological innovation becomes a scalable solution for the robotics of tomorrow. -
The goal we are pursuing
Our goal is to provide customers worldwide with access to high-performance, production-ready actuators for humanoid robots and other robotics applications—supported by high quality, industrial scalability, and a strong partner network across the entire value chain.
Voices
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“We have delivered millions of electromechanical actuators to the automotive industry. That is the standard we build to, and it is the standard humanoid robotics will need.”
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“A humanoid joint is not a motor with a gearbox. It is motion control, functional safety and drive electronics working as one system.”
About Synapticon
Synapticon develops drive technology and functional safety for robots. Rather than focusing on individual components, the team takes a system-wide approach: servo drives, actuators, and safety architecture are designed together from the very beginning. Since 2012, Synapticon, based in Schönaich near Stuttgart, has been working with manufacturers of humanoid robots, cobots, and mobile robots worldwide.
A new chapter in humanoid actuation begins with the partnership between Stabilus and Synapticon
The future of humanoid robotics depends on every joint. With around 30 joints per robot, each must be strong, intelligent and safe, and manufactured with consistent quality at scale. That takes more than a motor and a gearbox. Motion control, functional safety and mechanical design must work together, with series production in mind from day one.
Together, we are laying the foundation for advanced high-volume actuator production – delivering solutions that are powerful, scalable, and ready for industrial use.
In the video, Simon Fischinger, CEO of Synapticon, and David Sabet, CTO of Stabilus, give a closer look at what we are building together.