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Elmo Unveils Smaller, Higher Power Motion Controller and Servo Drives at Automate 2026, Offering New Switching Technologies and Certified Functional Safety
[June 18, 2026]

Elmo Unveils Smaller, Higher Power Motion Controller and Servo Drives at Automate 2026, Offering New Switching Technologies and Certified Functional Safety


Elmo, a worldwide leader in servo drive technology, today announced the availability of a new motion controller and new servo drives for a wide range of applications in industrial, harsh, and extreme environments across temperature, altitude, sea depth, humidity, vibration, and more. The new technologies can be seen in the Elmo booth (S-3601) at Automate 2026 in Chicago June 22-25.

Elmo is focused on providing the industry's smallest servo drives and motion controllers with the highest power density and certified functional safety features. These latest products set new benchmarks for power density, expand Elmo's existing Platinum line, and introduce the Titanium line that brings new levels of multi-axis compactness, intelligence, and safety integration to enable smaller, smarter, and safer systems. The safety functionalities implemented at the drive level reduce the need for much of the safety and hardware cabling.

"Our customers need more than just compact size and power density," said Elizabeth Victor, director of sales, Elmo US. "Functional safety is critical for many automation systems and can reduce or even eliminate the need for safety cages. By integrating functional safety into our controllers and servo drives, we enable OEMs to implement safety features at the foundation of their motion subsystem. With our certified offerings*, we also help simplify the design and certification of systems that must meet strict functional safety standards."

New Levels of Intelligence and Safety

The new products showcased at Automate include:

  • Titanium Castanet servo drive: Provides compact dual-axis capabilities with functional safety* in the size of a matchbox
  • Titanium Harmonica servo drive: Ultra-compact dual-axis drive engineered to maximize power density up to 50A/100V, 35A/200V with functional safety*.
  • Titanium Maestro motion controller: Next-generation multi-axis motion controller with support for up to 256 axes out of the 16 axes at the Ethercat speed of 100uSec.
  • Platinum Jori 30A/60A servo drives: Delivers up to 20 / 40 kW of continuous power in a compact package with functional safety* and introduces SIC (Silicon Carbide) power stage technology.
  • Platinum Cymbal servo drve: A rugged package that provides high power up to 17kW in a compact footprint with functional safety*

The new Titanium line simplifies design with multi-axis capabilities. For example, one Titanium Castanet can replace two Elmo Twitter servo drives. The final implementation is almost half the size of two Elmo Twitters, and engineers can synchronize x/y positioning with a single bus rather than having to synchronize two buses. These servo drives integrate a high-performance processor and brings GaN (Gallium Nitride) technology and more advanced technologies to enhance performance and switching efficiency to enable next-generation, intelligent motor systems.

Elmo Servo drives are used in any robotic systems and special technologies, including automated guided vehicles (AGVs)/ and autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), cobots and exo-skeletons. These applications often require a multitude of servo drives that are used independently to manage the position, velocity, and torque of motors for synchronized motion of the overall system. In addition, the same system may need a variety of servo drives to support the different motors, from large motors moving an entire cobot to many small motors operating a small robotic hand. To help engineers achieve this, Elmo servo drives deliver:


  • Compact servo size to minimize physical footprint
  • Industry-leading power density to provide more power in less space
  • Up to 17 certified functional safety features
  • High-precision control to enable accurate, coordinated movement across motors
  • Multi-axis capabilities to shrink systems and simplify design and synchronization
  • Fast off-the-shelf turnaround with quick customization where needed
  • Large-scale availability to support volume production

"We provide a comprehensive servo drive portfolio to meet the specific drive and control needs of our customers," Victor added. "Each of our product lines delivers a range of capabilities to match varying functionality, safety, and cost requirements."

Elmo supports its servo drives with the award-winning Elmo Application Studio III (EASIII) and Composer2 to enable machine designers to develop, test, and implement their own control algorithms.

*In certification process.

About Elmo Motion Control
Elmo has been a motion control technology leader for over 35 years, with millions of servo drives working 24/7 worldwide. Elmo offers complete motion control solutions from design to delivery of cutting-edge servo drives, network-based multi-axis motion controllers, and integrated servo motors. All solutions can be customized and configured using Elmo's proprietary advanced and easy-to-use software tools for any machine in any industry, such as semiconductors, lasers, robots, life sciences, industrial automation, AGV, and more. The company employs more than 350 personnel with headquarters in Israel and offices in the United States, China, Germany, Italy, Korea, Singapore, and an additional manufacturing facility in Poland. Elmo has a worldwide distribution network. By advancing motion control with state-of-the-art technology, Elmo makes smart machines even smarter. As of 2022, Elmo is a Bosch Rexroth company.

For more information, visit www.elmomc.com or email [email protected].

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