Small Motors, Big Moves: SMC-Enabled Geometries Accelerate Robotics
- Horizon Technology
- 11.20.2025
- Magnetics
Originally Published: November 20, 2025 | Updated: July 2026 | Reading Time: 9 min Topics: Motor Topology • Humanoid Robotics • Soft Magnetic Composites Small Motors, ...
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Is Electrical Steel Holding Motor Design Back?
- Horizon Technology
- 10.14.2025
- Design
For more than a century, laminated electrical steel has been the backbone of electric motor design. It’s familiar, reliable, and has powered everything from industrial ...
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Breaking the Mold, Pt 2: Segmenting SMCs to Unlock Design Freedom
- Horizon Technology
- 08.29.2025
- Magnetics
In Part 1 of this series, we explored how soft magnetic composites (SMCs) are reshaping electric motor design, enabling advanced topologies like axial flux and yokeless ...
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How SMCs Can Fuel Innovation in Power Tools
- Fran Hanejko
- 08.29.2024
- Applications
History of Power Tools Until after World War II, the US power tool market was largely focused on the industrial metal working and wood working industries. The home and ...
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Electric Motor Design: Shape and Performance
- Eric Wolfe
- 05.17.2023
- Materials
Electric Motor Design: A Balance of Shape and Performance
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Induction vs. Permanent Magnet Motor Efficiency | Electrification
- Fran Hanejko
- 11.29.2022
- Powdered Metallurgy
Electric motor efficiency has a significant impact on the industrial, consumer, and automotive sectors. Increased efficiency leads to lower greenhouse gas emissions ...
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Radial Flux vs. Axial Flux vs. Transverse Flux Motors: Which Topology ...
- Horizon Technology
- 11.10.2022
- Powdered Metallurgy
Originally published June 30, 2021. Updated August 18, 2026. Selecting an electric motor topology is not simply a choice between three geometries. It is a system-level ...
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The Advantages of Soft Magnetic Composites and Axial Flux Motors
- Fran Hanejko
- 05.26.2022
- Powdered Metallurgy
If you’re familiar with motors, you know that the axial flux motor has many advantages over other types of motors, such as higher power density, shorter magnetic path, ...
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Can SMCs Benefit Magnetic Bearing Designs in Electric Motors?
- Fran Hanejko
- 04.25.2022
- Powdered Metallurgy
The evolution of powder metal (PM) bearings, and ultimately modern powder metallurgy, dates back to the late 1920s when the Chrysler Corporation needed a higher strength ...
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Advantages & Disadvantages of Machining Processes vs. Powder ...
- Horizon Technology
- 02.07.2022
- Powdered Metallurgy
All manufacturing processes and technologies have their share of pros and cons. Yet, when it comes to powder metallurgy, few processes have changed for the better in a ...
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