The technology that delivers the metaverse will build on the technology for virtual reality, using more sensors, and more different kinds of sensors. TDK has one of the richest sensor portfolios in the industry, extensive software expertise, and excels at sensor fusion.

【How electrification and autonomous driving are expanding the role of sensor technologies within automotive designs】

The automotive production landscape is changing. The proliferation of electronic devices and sensors in modern car design has grown exponentially in recent years. It will expand further as the industry continues its transition toward e-mobility and autonomous driving. The core technologies featured in electric vehicles expand the realm into which sensors are deployed. Also, combustion engine vehicle gas sensors have shifted away from exhaust gas monitoring toward internal air quality (IAQ) measurement.

TDK offers a full suite of sensors that are perfectly suited for drones of all types from consumer/prosumer models to industrial units.
 
In just a few years, drones have become indispensable in one application after another, including such diverse areas as agriculture, real estate and cinematography. For all this success, drones still have almost unlimited potential given their suitability for a wide variety of uses including delivery, inspection, search & rescue, monitoring, and mapping, to name just a few.
 
Fundamental to drone utility is sensor technology. Drones rely on diverse sets of sensors for two broad purposes. First for their own functionality, notably flight and navigation, and second, for their ancillary capabilities – cameras for vision, motion detectors to sense activity, heat sensors to detect temperature, and so on.

The TDK Robokit1 combines sensors, processors, and actuators on a single board, making it an ideal robotics platform for quick prototyping and development. RoboKit1 integrates key product offerings such as 6-axis IMU, industrial IMU modules, capacitive barometric pressure sensor, digital I²S microphone, temp sensor, ultrasonic Time of Flight (ToF) sensors, magnetometer, and motor controller on a single PCB.
It also comes equipped with ARM® Cortex®-M7, multiple interfaces, and is compatible with multiple processor platforms such as Raspberry Pi and ASUS Tinker Board. RoboKit1 is not just another dev board—it is the comprehensive TDK solution showcase!

We provide Automotive MEMS sensors which have reliability testing performed according to AEC–­Q100 and provide PPAP and qualification data upon request. These are designed or specifically qualified and tested for the Automotive market with those unique needs in mind. These support the rapid growth of convenience, infotainment, telematics, Advanced Driver Assistance Systems ­(ADAS), and other technological features for the Automobile.

In industrial applications such as precision agriculture, high precision GNSS modules, construction machinery, robots, and automatic guided vehicles (AGVs), motion sensor data has become critical in enabling automation, improving efficiency, and monitoring conditions. TDK’s SmartIndustrial™ portfolio of 6-axis IMU modules, IIM-46234 and IIM-46230, delivers the precise motion, and inclination measurements that these applications required. These modules offer the ability to take precise measurements in harsh environments with vibration and wide temperature variations.
TDK’s broad portfolio of Industrial Motion Sensing solutions offers customers a range of performance and cost choices, enabling a wide variety of Industrial navigation, stabilization, and monitoring applications.
By combining its innovative MEMS Motion Sensor technologies with its expertise of Industrial applications, TDK offers unique capabilities such as Fault-tolerant motion sensing solution.

Service robots are widely used in various situations such as logistics / transport, security, cleaning, housework, hobbies / entertainment and care / assistance. Since service robots are used in a wide variety of situations, it is necessary to fulfil many requirements such as smooth communication with humans (HMI), ensuring safety and responding to changes in the real time. In service robots, the role of a sensor is very important. In this article, we will take a vacuum cleaner robots as an example.