Joint motors are the power heart of the robot, the dynamic performance of the robot, the control bandwidth, the operation reliability, is largely determined by it. Military equipment must withstand extreme conditions such as wide temperature ranges, strong vibration, salt fog and moisture, and provide impact resistance, environmental resistance, long service life, and high reliability of the motor; while man-made robots, industrial automation scenarios, must be miniaturized and efficient in small installation spaces while taking into account the cost of energy production pressure.
The real dilemma is that high-performance small-sized joint motors and auxiliary drive control chips have long been highly dependent on overseas supply chains. More importantly, it is worth the industry's attention: high-performance joint motors do not breakthrough by improving a single part, it is the machine's own process, high-frequency process, drive integrated chips, high-precision physical model algorithms deeply blended complex system engineering.
On September 23, 2026, the Joint Laboratory of High Performance Robotic Clutch Engines for the Armed Forces was signed in Chongqing, China, aiming at the above-mentioned industrial pain points. The tripartite division of the joint operation is clear and builds a synergistic system of silicon chip platforms + scientific research services + military manufacturing pipelines: high-technology: deep-sea: wireless semiconductor output RMCS movement control ecosystem platforms; drive integrated chips and physical AI algorithms; Chongqing Tiger Creek Machinery 5019 plant) undertakes the design of the electrical core, machine testing, military industrial environment inspection and industrialization; Chongqing Highlands is responsible for the development of innovative research and development as a military integration platform, landing site security requirements, coordination of projects and policies.
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Technical breakdown: Physical AI + nanoscale materials, breakdown of aluminum materials The advantages of aluminum materials are difficult to land
The research and development team built an exclusive physical model for the characteristics of the magnetic field of nanocrystalline materials, based on the inherent characteristics of the nanocrystals 130μΩ; cm resistance rate (about 3 times) to suppress high-frequency hydrogen flow loss; combined with a low-time delay CT 2001B lithium-ion high-frequency drive integrated chip built into a physical AI system, completed the machine's fully automatic parameter recognition, identification and automated model construction.
At the engine design level, the team worked on magnetic flux density, slot pole ratio, winding parameters for iron losses, copper losses, synchronizing the advantage, binding the magnetic density working area to the low-loss window of the nanocrystalline material, while shrinking the safety number, slot saturation to the optimal copper losses area. This idea is no longer simply stacking good materials, but through chips, algorithms reversely define the engine design, really transforming the advantages of the nanocrystalline low-magnetic losses material into the overall mechanical performance of the machine, providing a set of landing system solutions to make the machine difficult to land.
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RMCS platform at the bottom, attacking the chips
Nationalised joint motors, the largest interlocutors are often not separate chips or separate motor entities, but the system matches the chip with the motor. Many domestic chips, domestic motors test indicators separately, but after the combination of the two, the bandwidth, temperature rise, vibration, and reliability do not meet the actual requirements of the whole machine, especially in military-industrial complexity, the difficulty of electrical control software hardware adaptation is multiplied.
As a state-of-the-art high-tech enterprise, the core team from the Faculty of Secondary Education and the Faculty of Military Engineering, has built a complete silicon sensing, control, drive, power supply, sensor array, full silicon chip product matrix, multiple chips for large-scale commercial use. In this collaboration, the RMCS robot movement control ecodesign development platform as the technical underpinning, will customize silicon power chips, server driven controller hardware and supporting physical AI models, aimed at changing the state of the military industrial terminal electrical control software and hardware, focusing on tackling special electromechanical controls.
The laboratory will open chip simulation, electrical control performance test equipment, deploy semiconductor, electrical control R&D engineers in-house co-development, in collaboration with complete the whole system-wide environmental reliability testing. Practice with chip-defined motors, to release the potential of the material with algorithms, to push the domestic joint motors from the indicator of aluminum available to aluminum to aluminum in good working condition, filling the last kilometer of domestic production.
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Third-party closed-loop: R&D platform + chip technology + military manufacturing, running from R&D to bulk production
The main focus of this collaboration is to achieve the same platform for chip research and development, application of new materials and military-grade precision manufacturing.
Chongqing Highlands FEMA Innovation Institute: Combining innovative service platforms for military personnel at the Academy of Weapons Sciences, securing the site for the production of laboratories, exploring the needs of the military's two-way market, opening scientific research project reporting channels, and providing resource connectivity hubs;
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RMCS platform, drive integrated chips, lithium-ion technology, physical AI algorithms, and semiconductor R&D team to solve chip endings, electrical control system technology card points.
Three-dimensional resources overlapped to form a complete chip‑Engine‑System innovation closed-loop, cutting-edge technology does not have to stay in the paper and sample stage, can be directly combined with military-grade manufacturing and testing conditions, accelerating technological transformation.
In the operational mechanisms, the laboratories set up key projects, one-on-one consultations and personalized rapid response channels to demands, around military servo motors, high-reliability robotic joint motors to carry out technical operations, sampling machines development, intellectual property deployment and the development of talents in cross-sectional areas.
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Two-way transformation of the military and civilian industries: both military and civilian industries must be reliable
The results of the laboratory will follow a two-way empowerment path for the military people. Military end, self-development connector motor priority service military intelligent equipment power upgrading, meeting extreme working conditions such as wide-temperature range, strong vibration, high impact, improving equipment mobility and environmental adaptability; civil end, technological achievements against breastfeeding robots, industrial automation track, high-efficiency, small size, low-temperature domestic production connector programs, helping the entire supply chain enterprises to reduce the risk and overall cost of machinery, domestic robotics industry offers a whole new controllable power option.
Industry observation
Currently, many projects are used to single-point breakthroughs: either specialize in the motor body or specialize in the drive of chips. But the real military hardware, humanoid robot scenes, test the integrated capabilities of materials, chips, control algorithms, manufacturing processes.
The model of this joint laboratory, linking semiconductor chip enterprises, military industrial machinery plants, military civil fusion research platforms together, from the system level to solve the chips, machine junction pain points, trying to get out of a path of co-research and development of silicon materials, chips, motors, whole machinery. So that the final performance, cost and volume of production of this route, but also the need for subsequent sampling and validation of the working condition, the robot class will continue to follow the progress of the project.