At electronica 2026, Inova Semiconductors is showcasing a development platform for humanoid robots built on Inova’s APXpress high-speed networking technology and low-power Lattice CertusPro™ and Lattice CrossLink™NX FPGAs. DLR’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics is the scientific partner in the collaboration, contributing its long-standing research on robotic hands and manipulation. With that scientific partnership, the control architecture
Inova and Lattice Demonstrate Same-Cycle Distributed Motor Control for a Humanoid Hand with DLR Powered by Lattice FPGAs
At electronica 2026, Inova Semiconductors is showcasing a development platform for humanoid robots built on Inova’s APXpress high-speed networking technology and low-power Lattice CertusPro™ and Lattice CrossLink™NX FPGAs. DLR’s Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics is the scientific partner in the collaboration, contributing its long-standing research on robotic hands and manipulation. With that scientific partnership, the control architecture of an 18-motor research hand was reworked so that the motors, the joint sensors, and the tactile array with 10 sensors share one deterministic loop network.
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No specific orderable part number is named, so we would treat this as direction signal only and confirm the affected parts from the manufacturer announcement before quoting anything.
The checkable figures in this report (10 kHz, 2026, 1999) are the ones worth re-verifying against the datasheet, since pricing and lead time conversations turn on them.
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Source: EEJournal
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