New Human-Friendly Actuator Platform combines sub-100 ms local response with six standardized joint designs for scalable humanoid robots

SEOUL, South Korea, Aug. 31, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- HIGEN RNM, a motion-control and robotic drive platform company, today unveiled its Human-Friendly Actuator Platform, a standardized robotic joint actuator architecture designed to address one of the key challenges facing humanoid robotics: converting increasingly capable AI into safe, responsive and scalable physical movement.

As Physical AI and Vision-Language-Action models advance, humanoid robots are becoming better at perception, reasoning and planning. But real-world variables such as friction, heat, mechanical nonlinearities and joint latency can still create a gap between simulated performance and real-world operation.

HIGEN RNM is targeting these actuator-level challenges by embedding localized sensing and control directly into each robotic joint. Its distributed architecture enables each joint to detect unexpected disturbances and adjust force and stiffness locally in under 100 milliseconds, without relying solely on round-trip processing through a central controller.