Archives: 2026-11

moteus-r5

I now have the honor introducing the next moteus controller to the mjbots product line, the moteus-r5:

The moteus-r5 is the spiritual successor to the wildly popular moteus-r4, first released all the way back in 2020. The moteus-r5 takes all that we’ve learned about motor control in the intervening 6 years, and applies it to the same size, voltage, and output current class.

Comparisons

When I compared the moteus-r5 to the moteus-r4 above, I do mean “class”, because the moteus-r5 improves on the r4 across most of those axes, along with improving robustness, IO, and hall effect compatibility. The rough breakdown: