Applications

Humanoid Robotics

Whole-body contact feedback, balance stabilization, and reactive manipulation for humanoid platforms.

6-DOF500 HzWrist SensingBalance Control

Contact Feedback at Human Speed

Humanoid robots interact with unstructured environments where contact conditions change in milliseconds. Balance recovery, object handovers, and collision response all depend on fast, accurate force-torque feedback across multiple joints. AXIOM sensors deliver 6-axis data at up to 500 Hz with 0.025 N force resolution, enabling controllers to detect and respond to contact transitions before instability compounds.

Humanoid robot receiving a pear from a seated person in a home-like test cell, AXIOM sensor at the wrist closing a force feedback loop during the handover

Compact Integration Across Joints

Mounting sensors at wrists, ankles, and hip joints within tight joint assemblies demands compact, lightweight hardware. At 200 g and Ø60 mm, the AXIOM-500 fits inside joint cavities where heavier sensors are not viable. The hollow-shaft AXIOM-HS-1000 routes cables and pneumatic lines through its 25 mm bore, keeping wiring internal and eliminating external routing that snags during whole-body motion.

Humanoid robot in a warehouse handling a cardboard box with an AXIOM sensor integrated at the wrist joint

Key Metrics

500 Hz

Max Output Rate

6-DOF

Axes Measured

0.025 N

Force Resolution (Fx/Fy)

Challenges

Humanoid joint cavities impose strict volume and mass budgets — a sensor that improves force control but overloads the wrist payload budget is not viable.
Whole-body contact policies require time-aligned 6-axis streams from multiple sensors simultaneously; clock skew corrupts sim-to-real transfer and tactile learning datasets.
Balance recovery and fall prevention demand sub-5 ms end-to-end latency from contact event to controller response; onboard digitization and a single RS-485 cable eliminate the interface box that adds latency in legacy systems.

Outcomes

6-axis contact forces at each instrumented joint feed balance controllers, grasp planners, and collision-response layers from a single cable per sensor.
Hollow-shaft variants keep wrist-mounted cables internal, reducing snag risk during dynamic manipulation and simplifying joint assembly.

AXIOM-500Coming Soon

Compact, low-range 6-axis force-torque sensor for collaborative robotics and precision assembly.

Recommended

AXIOM-HS-1000

Through-hole design with central bore for clean cable, pneumatic, and tooling paths.

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Recommended

AXIOM-1000

Mid-range general-purpose model balancing force capacity and measurement resolution.

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Collaborative Robots

End-effector force-torque measurement at ISO/TS 15066 transient contact limits gives cobots a direct measurement of contact force — not an estimate derived from motor currents — enabling genuinely force-limited operation.

Safe human-robot interaction, force-limited assembly, and adaptive process control for cobots.

ISO/TS 15066IP67Force-LimitedEnd-Effector

Research

Consistent, factory-calibrated 6-axis streams at 500 Hz with full cross-coupling compensation produce datasets where inter-run variance reflects the experiment, not the sensor.

Tactile learning, biomechanics, material characterization, and robotic manipulation experiments.

Tactile LearningSim-to-Real500 HzBiomechanics

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