Copley Controls Spotlights Nano Module Drives, New Custom Motor-Drive Assemblies
The Nano drives are designed to operate in robotic joints. Meanwhile, the assemblies offer more options to customers to get a single integrated unit built to their specifications.
Published July 22, 2026
The Nano and Nano Plus module drives have been front and center at Copley Controls’ trade show offerings.
Copley Controls recently spotlighted its Nano and Nano Plus module drives while on the trade show circuit. Also featured was a new system to build custom integrated motor-drive assemblies to customer requirements.
The Nano and Nano Plus module drives are designed to tackle many of the common challenges robotics applications encounter. They are among the most compact high-performance servo drives on the market, sized for space-constrained applications such as robotic joints. They are designed to run efficiently to limit the heat generated in such tight enclosures where there is little room to dissipate it, and they support a range of brushless, DC brush and linear motors over industrial networks including EtherCAT, CANopen and EtherNet/IP.
Copley has also started offering custom motor-drive assemblies. Customers can combine a motor and drive in a single assembly built to their specifications. They showed this new core competency off with a custom unit that replaced an earlier design built around a large, separate drive housing. The updated version integrates the drive and a built-in encoder inside the motor package, cutting interconnects, cabling and connectors while shrinking the overall form factor and managing thermal load internally. This unified configuration features a frameless motor in a custom housing optimized for direct-drive setups, completely eliminating gear reduction between the motor and the load.
