Company profile
maxon
Maxon builds precision electric motors, drives, gearheads, sensors and controllers for robotics, medical, aerospace and industrial automation. Its motion s...
Facts
- Segment
- ACTUATION
- Country
- Switzerland
- Headquarters
- Sachseln, Europe
- Founded
- 1961
- Website
- https://www.maxongroup.com
About maxon
maxon engineers complete motion chains for robots, combining brushed and brushless motors, planetary or strain-wave gearheads, encoders, brakes and positioning controllers. Its High Efficiency and High Precision joint families cover torque outputs from very small mechanisms to hundreds of newton-metres, with options for integrated electronics, joint bearings, torque sensing, EtherCAT connectivity and IP67 protection.
EC flat and ECX flat motors provide high torque density in constrained joints, while GPX gearheads and EPOS4 controllers handle reduction, positioning and speed regulation. Customers can buy catalogue components, configurable motor-gearhead combinations or custom mechatronic assemblies. The drives serve humanoids, quadrupeds, mobile manipulators, surgical robots, prostheses, industrial arms and space mechanisms, including motors used in NASA's Perseverance rover sample-handling system.
Market context
SUPPLY_CHAIN
Summary
Type: Motor supplier
Core: Precision drives
Function: Motion
Audience: Robot OEMs
Products
- EC frameless DT 85 L — component
- EPOS4 50/5 — component
- HEJ 90 — component
- IDX — component_family
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- maxon Group acquires minority stake in Synapticon — 2025-07-15
- maxon launches 2024 product innovations including new robotic drive developments — 2024-11-25
- The Robot Studio demonstrates HOPE with maxon actuation — 2024-11-03
- maxon presents humanoid robot prototype HOPE and product highlights at SPS 2024 — 2024-11-03
- maxon introduces ESCON2 control platform for applications including logistics robots — 2024-09-10
- C-Log opens automated Digital Hub with 240 mobile robots — 2023-11-02
- maxon brings new product innovations to Hannover Messe 2023 — 2023-04-13
- maxon supports Floating Robotics tomato-boxing system — 2023-01-01