Robotics

As robots become integral to various industries, addressing technological challenges is paramount. HBK's advanced sensor solutions ensure unparalleled adaptability, seamless integration, and reliable performance. Empower your robotics engineers with HBK’s expertise.

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Shaping the Future of Robotics with HBK’s Advanced Sensors

The robotics industry, projected to reach $283 billion by 2032, is rapidly expanding across sectors like agriculture and transportation.

Overcoming challenges in robotic design requires cutting-edge sensor technologies to deliver precision, seamless automation, and robust safety. These technologies enable accurate perception, optimised performance, and reliable operation.

Industry leaders are driving innovations enhancing robotic systems through real-time, data-driven insights.

Measure applied forces, rotational torque, and load to optimize robotic interactions. Ensure safety, precision, and control in dynamic environments.

Measure forces and moments across all axes for precise motion control and trajectory optimization. Ideal for advanced robotics and automation.

Measures the deformation of a material under load. Used in robotics to monitor structural health and optimize the performance of robotic components.

Use acceleration, velocity, and orientation data for superior navigation, stability, and real-time control in mobile robotic applications.

Leverage wireless systems to collect data effortlessly. Enable efficient, remote-controlled robots in challenging environments with ease.

Analyze oscillatory movements to diagnose performance issues. Enhance reliability and prevent failures in robotic systems with real-time vibration insights.

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How Can Sensor Technology Drive Your Robotic System Forward?

Step into a world where robots perceive, interpret, and respond with unmatched precision, driving innovation across industries and unlocking new possibilities. This document delves into how cutting-edge sensor technology empowers engineers and designers to redefine robotic capabilities, from improving precision and response times to thriving in challenging environments. Learn how to choose the right sensor solutions to turn your vision into reality.

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Key Areas of Application

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Agricultural Robotics
Cobotics
Industrial Robotics
Medical Robotics
Mobile Robotics

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Agriculture robotic and autonomous car working in smart farm, Future 5G technology with smart agriculture farming concept

Agricultural robots are crucial in modern farming, addressing rising food demands and labor shortages. They streamline tasks like harvesting, weeding, spraying, monitoring, planting, pruning, and trimming. Types of agricultural robots include harvesting robots, weeding robots, and greenhouse harvesting robots.

Designers face challenges in optimizing productivity and ensuring precise navigation and localization. Modern agricultural robots integrate advanced sensors for crop health monitoring, load assessment, and real-time climate data.

HBK sensors enhance the efficiency and reliability of agricultural robots, improving yields and reducing costs. HBK's advanced sensor technologies, such as strain gauges and inertial sensors, support innovation in agricultural robotics.

A group of engineers on a cobot perform a real-time-sensor test

Collaborative robots, or "cobots," are compact and technologically advanced, specializing in tasks like small parts assembly and machine tending, enhancing safety and efficiency in industrial settings. Types include robotic arms, mobile units, and exoskeletons.

Design challenges include precision, reliability, and safe human interaction. Crucially, sensors play a vital role in ensuring safety and productivity by detecting humans and objects, integrating seamlessly, and providing real-time data feedback. For instance, strain gauge sensors measure torque for safety, while 6DOF force sensors ensure precise handling.

With expertise in tailored sensor solutions, HBK enables safe human-cobot collaboration, enhancing efficiency and productivity in cobot environments.

Industrial robotic measurement on the mechanical system by an engineer

Industrial robots are vital in modern manufacturing, performing precise tasks efficiently. They're used across sectors like automotive, manufacturing, and logistics for assembling, palletizing, quality control, and more. However, designers face challenges meeting demands for higher precision and reliability.

Modern robots integrate advanced sensors for precise control and feedback, like strain gauge sensors for measuring torque and forces.

HBK’s sensor solutions enhance robot precision and reliability, reducing maintenance needs. Investing in research, HBK aims to stay ahead in addressing future industrial robotics challenges, remaining committed to innovation and industry leadership.

Surgical and medical robots controlled by an operator

Medical robots revolutionize surgical procedures, offering precise control and minimally invasive options. Types include teleoperated, autonomous, imaging, and diagnostic robots. Challenges include patient safety, precision, miniaturization, and integration. Advanced sensors provide real-time feedback, ensuring accuracy and safety.

HBK offers tailored sensor solutions, enhancing performance and safety. Force and torque sensors prevent tissue damage, while optical sensors improve imaging. Miniaturized sensors enable operation in tight spaces. Real-time data analytics support decision-making, advancing medical robotics.

Future Technology 3D Concept: Automated Modern Retail Warehouse AGV Robots Transporting Cardboard Boxes in Distribution Logistics Center. Automated Guided Vehicles Delivering Goods, Products, Packages

Mobile robots are essential in modern industries, addressing complex material handling and logistics with adaptability and efficiency. They are crucial in logistics, warehousing, healthcare, agriculture, and transportation, performing tasks such as autonomous loading, inventory management, and surface cleaning. Types of mobile robots include wheeled robots, tracked variants, bipeds, aerial drones, underwater models, quadrupeds, and modular iterations.

Designing effective mobile robots involves challenges in navigation, sensor integration, and safety compliance. Modern mobile robots utilize advanced sensors for optimized navigation, terrain adaptability, weight assessment, and system integration.

HBK offers tailored sensors and wireless solutions for real-time data acquisition and system integration. IMUs and inertial navigation systems address localization needs. Committed to innovation, HBK enhances operational efficiency, reliability, and safety in mobile robotics.

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Your Partner Through the Entire Lifecycle

HBK’s team of experienced engineers provide customised solutions tailored to your specific needs, enabling optimisation across sensors, electronics, and connections. These solutions are instrumental in measuring torque, mass, pressure, and more, particularly when standard sensors fall short. Seamlessly integrating data ensures flawless control functions. By collaborating with HBK’s OEM sensor experts, you can enhance the safety, durability, and efficiency of your robots and cobots, leveraging both the expertise of your product engineers and HBK’s specialised knowledge.

In laboratory environments, strain gauges, temperature sensors, and vibration sensors play crucial roles in conducting tests and analyses for fatigue, stress, durability, and other parameters. These sensors deliver reliable and reproducible measurements, vital for scientific experiments and quality control checks.

HBK also offers comprehensive testing and analysis solutions that complement simulation and physical testing, supporting designers throughout the sensor development.

HBK provides sensor, electronic, and wiring solutions adhering to rigorous quality standards, catering to manufacturers’ need for enhanced profitability and customer satisfaction while ensuring safety in robot design through data collection and analysis.

With manufacturing capabilities across the USA, EU, and Asia, HBK delivers scalable sensor volumes and integrated industrial process control solutions, meeting customer demands for flexibility, adaptability, and high precision in ongoing production processes.

HBK offers a wide range of reliable and customisable sensor technologies, ensuring optimal performance and safety for robot operators across various applications.

Moreover, our asset condition monitoring solutions allow for proactive maintenance planning, cost optimisation, and enhanced safety by detecting signs of wear or damage in mechanical parameters over time.

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