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2026
September
09

NexCOBOT Partners with Safetics to Launch Fully Integrated Humanoid Robot Controller Solution, Accelerating Humanoid Robot Commercialization

Combining the NVIDIA Jetson computing platform with NexCOBOT's proprietary real-time control technology to deliver an all-in-one integrated solution — enabling customers to deploy humanoid robot controllers with full-body balance and autonomous navigation without complex system integration


NexCOBOT MARS400 robotic AI controller: bridging perception and motion control for humanoid robots

 


Safetics humanoid robot motion and environment-perception simulation: real-time path planning and posture control across complex terrain

TAIPEI, August 19, 2026 — NexCOBOT, a leading robotic AI controller company, today announced an expanded partnership with Safetics, having successfully unveiled a fully integrated solution together at the recently concluded 2026 Automation Taipei (held August 19–22): built on NexCOBOT's flagship MARS400 Pro as the AI controller foundation, combined with Safetics' Humanoid Control Packages application layer, delivering a complete stack from real-time control and operating system through motion-control algorithms — significantly shortening customers' development timeline from concept to mass production.

News Summary

  • All-in-one integrated solution: NexCOBOT provides the MARS400 Pro robotic AI controller, pre-integrated with Ubuntu OS, NVIDIA JetPack, and ROS 2.0, along with NexCOBOT's in-house real-time operating system NexRTOS and EtherCAT Master NexECM. Safetics layers its Humanoid Control Packages on top, so customers no longer need to integrate the underlying system themselves and can focus on robot application development.
  • Real-time performance and precision control: Powered by NexCOBOT's proprietary real-time control system NexRTOS and EtherCAT master technology NexECM, ensuring millisecond-level real-time performance and high reliability for full-body balancing and motion control.
  • Complete application-layer capability: Safetics' Humanoid Control Packages provide six core modules — SLAM/navigation, static and dynamic obstacle detection, balance walking, avoidance, and external disturbance handling.
  • NVIDIA Jetson computing foundation: Built on the NVIDIA Jetson series as its compute core, balancing AI inference performance with industrial-grade reliability to support complex perception and decision-making workloads.
  • The solution was demonstrated live at the 2026 Automation Taipei show (Aug 19–22, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center Halls 1 & 2) at NexCOBOT's booth M220 in Hall 1, successfully showcasing a humanoid robot's autonomous navigation and balance control in a dynamic environment..

“For humanoid robots to move from the lab into the real world, the key isn't a single technological breakthrough — it's whether the hardware and software can work together seamlessly. Through our partnership with Safetics, we're creating MARS400 Pro, an integration of  NexCOBOT’s compute and real-time control capabilities with Safetics' expertise in motion intelligence, enabling customers to build truly commercial-ready humanoid robot controllers with less time and lower integration risk.”

— Jenny Shern, General Manager, NexCOBOT

 

“For humanoid robots to be deployed quickly and used easily in complex, unstructured environments, they must be able to maintain full-body balance, navigate autonomously, and adapt safely to changing terrain and surrounding conditions without extensive site-specific engineering. NexCOBOT's MARS400 Pro provides a stable, reliable real-time computing foundation that lets our Humanoid Control Packages perform at their best in the real world. That's exactly why we chose to partner with NexCOBOT.”

— Heonseop Shin, CEO, Safetics

All-in-One Integration, Lowering the Development Barrier

Developing a humanoid robot involves multiple layers of technology — real-time operating system tuning, communication protocol integration, and motion-control algorithms. Customers have traditionally had to piece together products from multiple vendors, resulting in long integration cycles and high risk. NexCOBOT's MARS400 Pro is built around NVIDIA Jetson at its core, pre-integrating Ubuntu OS, NVIDIA JetPack, and ROS 2.0, along with NexCOBOT's proprietary real-time operating system NexRTOS and EtherCAT Master NexECM, forming a proven AI controller platform. Safetics layers its Humanoid Control Packages on top, giving customers a complete solution from the AI controller through motion control — freeing up development resources to focus on differentiated applications.

Real-Time Control Is Key to Humanoid Robot Safety and Stability

Full-body balance control in humanoid robots demands extremely high real-time performance — any delay can cause the robot to lose balance or misstep. NexCOBOT's proprietary NexRTOS delivers deterministic real-time computing, paired with NexCOBOT's own EtherCAT Master NexECM for high-speed, low-latency motor control communication. Together they ensure Safetics' balance-walking and obstacle-avoidance algorithms run reliably within millisecond-level cycles — a foundational capability that's essential for humanoid robots to move from demonstration to real-world deployment.

Accelerating Humanoid Robot Commercialization

As the humanoid robotics industry moves from proof-of-concept toward commercialization, demand for “plug-and-play” integrated solutions is growing rapidly. The NexCOBOT–Safetics partnership enables robot integrators and end customers to obtain a complete controller solution with autonomous localization and navigation, dynamic obstacle avoidance, and full-body balance — with less time and lower technical risk — accelerating time to market.

Safetics' safety-intelligence models simulating humanoid balance, terrain adaptation, and contact risk across multiple real-world scenarios

 
MARS400 Pro × Safetics Humanoid Control Packages full technology stack. Red = NexCOBOT products; blue = Safetics application layer; gray/green = Ubuntu and NVIDIA ecosystem components.

About NexCOBOT

NexCOBOT is a technology provider in robot control and motion control — not a robot manufacturer, but the computing and control platform that enables robots to sense, think, and move safely and intelligently. With more than 13 years of robotics industry experience, NexCOBOT integrates AI computing, real-time motion control, and industrial functional safety into a single architecture, working closely with NVIDIA to provide humanoid robots, quadruped robots, collaborative robots, and industrial AI systems with a complete platform spanning computing, control, and safety — bridging the critical gap between AI algorithms and physical robot execution. Learn more at nexcobot.com.

About Safetics

Safetics builds the safety intelligence layer for Physical AI. Its Contact Safety AI predicts the physical consequences of human-robot contact, while its Risk Assessment AI interprets the robot, task, environment, and applicable safety requirements to identify risks before an action is executed. This intelligence enables robots to assess each situation and respond through speed reduction, motion modification, policy change, or stopping. For humanoids operating on uneven terrain, safety requires more than collision avoidance: terrain conditions, full-body dynamics, external disturbances, and balance-recovery capability must be evaluated together. Safetics combines these technologies to deliver explainable, and certifiable robot safety. Learn more at safetics.io.

This press release contains forward-looking statements. Actual results may differ materially from those statements due to market conditions, technological developments, or other factors.

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