Product profile
DYNAMIXEL Y Series
DYNAMIXEL Y Series is ROBOTIS smart actuator line for higher-performance robot joints and compact automation. It is used by developers building robots that...
Facts
- Company
- ROBOTIS
- Product type
- component_family
- Status
- available
- Primary capability
- locomotion
- Website
- https://emanual.robotis.com/docs/en/dxl/y/
About DYNAMIXEL Y Series
The DYNAMIXEL Y Series is a ROBOTIS family of servo actuators alongside the company's P, X, XL and other DYNAMIXEL ranges. It includes YM070-210 and YM080-230 variants with different connector, gear and configuration suffixes, forming a modular motion component for robotic joints.
A Y-Series actuator sits in the joint or drive layer of a robot, where a controller and mechanical linkage use its position, torque and communication functions to produce motion. Connector, reduction, electrical interface, firmware and allowable load vary by motor variant, so the selected suffix determines the usable configuration.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Smart actuator
Core: Servo modules
Function: Actuation
Audience: Robot OEMs
Specifications
- communication
- Half-duplex RS-485 communication
- control_algorithm
- PID control algorithm
- family
- DYNAMIXEL Y Series
- feedback
- Multi-turn absolute encoder
- gear_ratio
- DYD cycloidal gear reducer
- input_voltage
- 24.0 V on listed YM080 model
- motor
- Frameless BLDC motor
- protocol
- DYNAMIXEL Protocol 2.0
- resolution
- Multi-turn absolute encoder resolution listed in product specifications
- safety_features
- Integrated electric brake on brake models
- structural_model
- Hollow-shaft smart actuator with frameless BLDC motor, DYD cycloidal gear reducer, controller, and integrated drive architecture
- variant_summary
- Y Series includes YM070 and YM080 actuator models with motor-only, brake, reducer, and brake-plus-reducer configurations
Operations
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- ROBOTIS actuator demand exceeds capacity as output expands — 2026-07-27
- ROBOTIS delivery robots operate from public-road stations in Magok — 2026-06-29
- ROBOTIS and LG expand actuator and humanoid R&D partnership — 2026-06-23
- ROBOTIS releases OpenMANIPULATOR ROS 2 packages for physical AI development — 2026-04-29
- ROBOTIS releases HX5-D20 robotic hand and XM335-T323-T actuator — 2026-02-11
- ROBOTIS Introduces AI Worker Semi-Humanoid at CES 2026 — 2026-01-06
- Explainable Neural Inverse Kinematics for Obstacle-Aware Robotic Manipulation: A Comparative Analysis of IKNet Variants — 2025-12-29
- ROBOTIS maintains TurtleBot3 open-source ROS platform packages — 2025-12-15