Physical AI - MEMS and TMR sensors connect robots with the world around them
Yole Group forecasts the humanoid robot market will grow to $51 billion by 2035.
Motion, magnetic, MEMS microphone, and distance sensors enable robots to understand their environments, navigate, and interact with the world around them. AI-driven robotics require smart, precise sensors to move smoothly, operate safely, and reliably perform their tasks. High-quality sensors result in safe movement, seamless navigation, and capabilities that both amaze and get delicate work done.
Easy to integrate
Speed development with mature and feature-rich sensors
High performance
Power complex behaviors using resilient and accurate sensors
Pre-built software
Enable new use cases with pre-optimized software and algorithms
Speed development with mature and feature-rich sensors
Power complex behaviors using resilient and accurate sensors
Enable new use cases with pre-optimized software and algorithms
What kind of robots are you developing?
Smooth and precise motor control with obstacle and presence detection for safety
Human-like movement and complex, multi-faceted sensing as humanoids need to safely interact with people in open-ended human environments
Smooth and precise motor control with obstacle and presence detection for safety
Human-like movement and complex, multi-faceted sensing as humanoids need to safely interact with people in open-ended human environments
What do you need your robot to do?
Smooth and consistent movement with TDK 9- and 6-axis TDK SmartMotion™ IMUs for robotics
Delicate movements require the exact sensing of controls and moving parts, such as articulated arms or rolling wheels, that TMR sensors deliver
Give your robot the ability to hear commands and key sounds clearly, even in noisy environments, using TDK MEMS microphones
Avoid obstacles and give your robot the ability to map our objects surrounding it with TDK ultrasonic sensors
Explore popular sensors that are popular for robotics applications
High-Performance Ultra-Compact Ultrasonic Time‑of‑Flight Sensor for Ultra-Long-Range Applications
The ICU-30201 is a high-performance ultrasonic Time-of-Flight sensor that is ideal for measuring the range of objects between 30cm and 9.5m, and offers a customizable field-of-view of up to 180º. It has a sample rate of 75 samples per second at 2 meters, and 18 samples per second at 9 meters. It comes in a 5.17 × 2.68 × 0.9 mm LGA package, and includes an integrated DSP for signal processing.
Bottom Port I²S Digital Output Multi‑Mode Microphone
The T5848 is a low noise, high AOP I²S microphone with a 24‑bit PCM output for direct connection to a wide variety of SoCs. It also features Acoustic Activity Detect (AAD), a new ultra-low power edge processing feature consuming as low as 20 µA.
High-Precision 6-Axis MEMS MotionTracking® Device
The ICM-45686 is an ultra high‑performance 6‑axis MEMS motion sensor family with the world’s first BalancedGyro™ technology and lowest power consumption. The sensor combines a 3‑axis gyroscope and a 3‑axis accelerometer in a compact 2.5 × 3 × 0.81 mm package.
The BalancedGyro technology by TDK is the first‑of‑its‑kind gyroscope MEMS architecture that enables supreme vibration rejection and temperature stability performance, an enhancement never seen before in a consumer gyroscope.
ICM-45686 provides higher full-scale range upto 4000 dps and 32g, better temperature stability to reduce temperature related drift, and high-performance features such as Real Time Clock Input and 18/19 bit high-resolution FIFO.
This family offers the world’s lowest power 6‑axis motion sensor. This allows the gyroscope to be on 40% of the times more than any other gyroscope in the industry. This also offers the very first Gyroscope Low Power Mode, enabling ~200uA of 6-axis IMU current consumption, making it the top choice for wearables, hearables and any battery driven IoT application.
It has a configurable host interface that supports I3C℠, I²C and SPI serial communication, and an AUX interface that supports SPI slave mode for connection to OIS controllers or I²C master mode for connection to external sensors.
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