Kollmorgen Targets Humanoid Motion at RoboBusiness

Single-source brief: Kollmorgen plans a session on scaling humanoid motion hardware. Deployment details remain unknown.

What Is Changing

Kollmorgen will present a joint-by-joint approach to humanoid motion at RoboBusiness 2026.

The session is called “A Joint-by-Joint Guide to Humanoid Motion.”

Yoshi Umeno will lead the talk. He is Kollmorgen’s global director of business development for robotics.

The session starts at 11:30 a.m. PT on Oct. 20. RoboBusiness runs Oct. 20-21 in Santa Clara, California.

Why Joint Design Matters

Kollmorgen says humanoid makers face a gap between working prototypes and scalable products.

Software can change within weeks. Motion hardware takes months to reach functional samples.

Volume production can take years, according to Kollmorgen.

That gap can become the main bottleneck. Kollmorgen says concept design is often not the limiting step.

The proposed framework treats humanoid motion as a body-zone problem. It does not use one motion design for every joint.

The talk will cover demands across different body zones. It will also address production scaling challenges.

What Operators Should Watch

Kollmorgen plans to discuss how teams can assess motion partners.

Its framework will include complete motion solutions and co-engineering support.

For operators, the key issue is not a robot’s demo motion. It is whether actuators, motors, drives, and precision parts can scale together.

This is a conference session, not a product deployment announcement.

No independent confirmation was supplied. Details on specific humanoid systems, production volumes, and customer deployments remain unknown.