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Tech Shorts: 5 New Sensors Target Robots, Underwater Cameras, and More

Tech Shorts: 5 New Sensors Target Robots, Underwater Cameras, and More

Benewake, STMicroelectronics, TDK, and Vishay released sensors for near-field robot safety, dive-ready wearables, GNSS-free navigation, redundant motor control, and optical data links.


News Oct 21, 2026 by Luke James
Summit 2026 - Beyond 2D: Robotic Environmental Awareness with 3D ToF and RGB Sensor Fusion

Summit 2026 - Beyond 2D: Robotic Environmental Awareness with 3D ToF and RGB Sensor Fusion

Join Infineon and pmdtechnologies for a demo-driven webinar on combining precise distance data with rich texture to elevate performance, reliability, and ROI.


Summit 2026 - Advanced Position Sensing Solution For Humanoid Robots

Summit 2026 - Advanced Position Sensing Solution For Humanoid Robots

Infineon’s XENSIV™ Hall sensors enable precise motor control and tactile sensing in hands. Learn key design requirements and engineering challenges for stable, reliable robotic motion.


Summit 2026 - Beyond Piezo: The Future of Ultrasound with XENSIV™ MEMS Ultrasonic Transceiver

Summit 2026 - Beyond Piezo: The Future of Ultrasound with XENSIV™ MEMS Ultrasonic Transceiver

XENSIV™ MEMS transceivers enable smaller, more integrated, and highly scalable sensing solutions. Learn key design considerations and emerging use cases across robotics and automation.


Summit 2026 - Advancing Battery Safety Through Early Thermal Runaway Detection

Summit 2026 - Advancing Battery Safety Through Early Thermal Runaway Detection

Join this webinar to discover how Infineon's pressure sensors enable early thermal runaway detection and improve battery safety through fast, reliable pressure monitoring.


Exclusive—Renesas Exec Talks Humanoid Robotics, Analog Solutions, and More

Exclusive—Renesas Exec Talks Humanoid Robotics, Analog Solutions, and More

In this interview article, Renesas VP Peter Jenkins discusses how the company is leveraging its automotive sensor heritage and mixed-signal ICs to power the future of edge AI and humanoid robotics.


News Oct 05, 2026 by Jeff Child
Nanopower’s Sensor Monitoring IC Saves Power on Always-On Devices

Nanopower’s Sensor Monitoring IC Saves Power on Always-On Devices

Nanopower Semiconductor’s power-saving IC manages sensors and peripherals while keeping the host MCU off, with an idle current of just 200 nA.


News Sep 17, 2026 by Joshua Tidwell
Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

Microchip Debuts Rev 2 of Its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge

The new PolarFire FPGA-powered board from Microchip brings multiple sensors to Nvidia edge AI platforms.


News Aug 24, 2026 by Duane Benson
Efinix Seeks to Overcome Edge AI Constraints With New FPGA Family

Efinix Seeks to Overcome Edge AI Constraints With New FPGA Family

The Titanium Edge FPGA family targets constrained edge AI with 50% lower power, compact SiP packages, high-speed MIPI I/O, and robust security/reliability features for intelligent systems.


News Jul 14, 2026 by Austin Futrell
Nvidia First to Roll Out Full-Stack Safety System for Physical AI in Robotics

Nvidia First to Roll Out Full-Stack Safety System for Physical AI in Robotics

The full-stack platform pairs the IGX Thor compute module with a safety-certified software stack and an accredited inspection lab, with humanoid maker Agility as the first adopter.


News Jul 06, 2026 by Luke James
Indie Launches Edge AI SoC for Perception Systems in Autos and Robots

Indie Launches Edge AI SoC for Perception Systems in Autos and Robots

The new system-on-chip pairs a heterogeneous AI compute engine with a low-latency multi-camera image signal processor, and can ship pre-integrated with emotion3D perception software.


News Jun 29, 2026 by Luke James
ST Unveils 2.3K-Zone dToF 3D Lidar Module for Resource-Limited Edge AI

ST Unveils 2.3K-Zone dToF 3D Lidar Module for Resource-Limited Edge AI

Announced today, the all-in-one VL53L9CX combines stacked BSI SPAD technology, metasurface optics, and on-chip processing to deliver dense spatial awareness directly to small microcontrollers.


News Jun 22, 2026 by Jeff Child
STMicro Unwraps Low-Power Image Sensors for Always-On Designs

STMicro Unwraps Low-Power Image Sensors for Always-On Designs

New BrightSense global-shutter sensors reduce power consumption by 10x for continuous sensing in battery-constrained wearables.


News May 07, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Gigadevice Targets HMI and Edge Designs with New MCU Series

Gigadevice Targets HMI and Edge Designs with New MCU Series

Gigadevice’s GD32F5HC MCU series combines high performance, compact size, integrated security, and rich peripherals to support HMI and IoT edge applications.


News May 06, 2026 by Austin Futrell
TDK Unwraps Software Tools for Sensor Data and IMU Evaluation

TDK Unwraps Software Tools for Sensor Data and IMU Evaluation

Today, the company released two new AI software products at Sensors Converge, SensorGPT, for creating sensor data at scale, and SensorStage to accelerate development workflow for the company’s latest IMUs.


News May 05, 2026 by Duane Benson
STMicro Launches UWB IC Family Aimed at Next-Gen Ranging and Sensing

STMicro Launches UWB IC Family Aimed at Next-Gen Ranging and Sensing

Announced at Embedded World, the new IEEE 802.15.4ab-compliant SoC extends wireless ranging to hundreds of meters.


News Mar 23, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Inside eMASS’s ECS-DoT SoC: Decompression and AI at the Sensor Edge

Inside eMASS’s ECS-DoT SoC: Decompression and AI at the Sensor Edge

In this exclusive CES interview, All About Circuits learned how EMASS's new ultra-low-power SoC brings intelligence where size, power, and latency matter most: the sensor edge.


News Jan 14, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Digid Qualifies Its Tiny Temperature and Force Sensors for Mass Deployment

Digid Qualifies Its Tiny Temperature and Force Sensors for Mass Deployment

Announced today at CES, Digid has qualified its nanoscale sensing technology for volume deployment.


News Jan 06, 2026 by Jake Hertz
Knowledge and Nostalgia: 2025’s Top Educational Articles

Knowledge and Nostalgia: 2025’s Top Educational Articles

Ring in the new year with this roundup of All About Circuits' most popular educational content, both technical and historical.


News Dec 31, 2025 by Abby Garfinkle
Infineon Serves Up New 60 GHz CMOS Radar Aimed at Low-Power IoT

Infineon Serves Up New 60 GHz CMOS Radar Aimed at Low-Power IoT

The compact 60 GHz radar sensor includes an antenna in package, affording ultra-wide bandwidth FMCW operation with a single-chip solution.


News Nov 17, 2025 by Arjun Nijhawan