TECHNOLOGY, SERVICES & RESEARCH — Product Introduction
InvenSense’s TDK RoboKit1, a Solid Development Platform, Joins SmartRobotics Solutions Set Organization Name: Country: Website: Year Founded: Number of Employees: Innovation Class: Innovation Subclass:
InvenSense USA https://invensense.tdk.com 2003 500+ Technology, Services & Research Product Introduction
Description: In January 2022, TDK Corporation subsidiary InvenSense announced the TDK RoboKit1, a development platform and reference design for robotics systems. The TDK RoboKit1 board, powered by an ARM Cortex-M7 processor, incorporates a number of sensors, including a 6-axis IMU, a barometric pressure sensor, a magnetometer, digital I²S microphones, a temperature sensor, and ultrasonic Time of Flight (ToF) sensors. Also included with the TDK RoboKit1 are so ware libraries, as well as ROS 1- and ROS 2- compliant drivers.
Analysis: As a robust, highly functional development platform, the TDK RoboKit1 provides robotics developers with a solid technical basis for prototyping and development that simplifies robotics engineering and reduces time to market. But more importantly, the TDK RoboKit1 is just the latest addition to TDK’s SmartRobotics product family and solution set. The SmartRobotics ‘platform’ also includes a number of boards, SoCs and reference designs developed by partner Qualcomm Robotics, and other TDK technologies.
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With the release of the TDK RoboKit1, InvenSense, and its $13B multinational parent company TDK, is making a statement regarding the business opportunities presented by the burgeoning robotics sector, and that its intentions for providing critical enabling technologies for robotics developers extend beyond a single development board. Taken together, the TDK RoboKit1 and SmartRobotics suite demonstrates that a company with boatloads of technical wherewithal, deep pockets, and similarly equipped partners, is clearly intent on producing a solutions ecosystem for robotics development going forward. RR – Dan Kara
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