Elmos Semiconductor SE and its customer AGIBOT, a leading Chinese robotics company, are presenting applications and use cases for Elmos integrated circuits in humanoid robots at electronica 2026 in Munich. The demonstration underscores how semiconductor technologies proven in the automotive industry can be adapted to robotics, potentially unlocking a substantial long-term market for Elmos and signaling a strategic expansion beyond its core automotive business.
Humanoid robots are complex, autonomous, battery-powered systems composed of computers, sensors, and actuators. Their electronic architecture is similar in many respects to that of modern vehicles, which makes Elmos’ expertise directly transferable. The company is bringing its automotive chips into robotics, opening up a new growth area. At electronica 2026, visitors can see a humanoid AGIBOT robot in action at Hall C3, Booth 141, and explore where Elmos technologies could be used in future robotics applications.
Elmos motor control ICs precisely control the electric motors in a robot’s joints and limbs, enabling smooth, finely tuned movements and helping adjust force and speed to the task at hand. Elmos sensor ICs enable capacitive touch, proximity, PIR and ultrasonic sensing, as well as position and force measurement, providing critical information about the robot’s status and supporting safe movement and interaction with people and the surrounding environment. Notably, Elmos’ USPA IC E524.36 is already used in AGIBOT’s wheeled robots.
For communication and edge control, Elmos network ICs connect central computing units with sensors, actuators and other edge applications, enabling fast, reliable data exchange similar to the zonal architectures used in modern vehicles. Connected robots also require secure communication, and Elmos’ Quantum Random Number Generator (QRNG) can provide random numbers to support cryptographic processes and help protect communications. In the future, Elmos eFuse ICs could help electronically protect and monitor power distribution in the robot. A single humanoid robot could integrate more than 120 Elmos ICs for motion, sensing, power and connectivity across its architecture.
Current studies forecast a substantial long-term market potential for humanoid robots, and as adoption grows, demand for semiconductors is expected to rise significantly. Humanoid robotics is a natural extension of Elmos’ expertise in analog mixed-signal semiconductor solutions at the intelligent edge of the system, opening up an additional long-term growth area. At electronica 2026, Elmos and AGIBOT bring this potential to life with a humanoid robot demonstration showing how semiconductor functions can work together across a range of robotics applications. The full release is available on www.newmediawire.com.
