In August 2021 Elon Musk announced that Tesla would build a humanoid robot to “eliminate dangerous, repetitive, boring tasks”

The number of companies and pace at which they are developing robots and exoskeletons (construction, manufacturing, power & utilities, mining, healthcare, defense, and other applications) is staggering during the last five years.          

Cadex has been in contact with several robotics companies including Rewalk Robotics (Yokneam, Israel and Marlborough MA), Sarcos (Salt Lake City UT), Boston Dynamics (Waltham MA), B-Temia (Quebec City Canada).

These systems share a common power trend  - the robot motors are commonly 48V systems and tend to be driven by high-power 12S -14S Li-Ion or LiFePO4 based (operating 35 – 58.6VDC) battery systems in the range of 14-16Ah (4P-6P). 18650 and 21700 cylindrical cell configurations are common. Chargers offering output of 350 - 450W output (7-8A) are typical to support charge times of approximately 2 hours.

Cadex is investigating feasibility of future products and tools with cloud analytics to better serve the robots and exoskeletons market segment.

If you have a prospect requiring future tools featuring cloud analytics to help charge and manage battery packs for robots or exoskeletons, Cadex would be pleased to hear from you – please contact your Territory Manager.