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Aug 19, 2026 12:19am NXP Semiconductors Sensors Applications humanoid Specialized Domains --> There’s a trend in tech for individual companies to invite customers and would-be buyers to elaborate and heady back-to-back technical sessions that last over a few chock-full days. Nvidia has done it for years, and more recently Intel and many others. This week, NXP Semiconductors held its NXP Technology Days, where the focus was on its traditional areas of automotive, industrial and, now, robotics. Man, were there robotics! From NXP’s perspective, the aspiration comes as a supplier of all things that go into a robot or a humanoid, which is really a system of systems of sensors and actuators and more components that need to have those systems work together as one. One of the best representations of the robotics theme was a single robotic hand sitting on a display cluttered with other futuristic robot designs for small vehicles and more. The NXP actuators in the robot hand could be activated to move, gesturing a peace sign at one point. At the robot arm’s control was an NXP intern for the summer, Dmitri Cromarty, a rising senior in electrical engineering at Howard University, aug. 18 story Dmitri Cromarty (Hamblen) a private university in Washington, D.C. Cromarty had a chance to work on two projects over the summer for NXP, including creating controls for the robot hand that would allow it make gestures such as a peace sign, but also to imitate his own human gestures by using a nearby vision sensor on a circuit board in its design phase. “I’d love to work at NXP” after finishing at Howard, Cromarty told me, which implied he’d love to work on robots as well. Robotics jobs are in demand, and NXP was smart to put him in such a visible spot on its show floor while reminding engineers in the audience during repeated tech sessions just how important robotics will be for the world, and especially for NXP. A strategist and top executive at the company, Charles Dachs, told audiences how robotics was small today for NXP but is the company’s fastest growing area. NXP is already selling components into many big robotics companies, including Boston Dynamics, but oddly did not show off any robots roaming around the halls at the Santa Clara, Calif., Marriott, preferring instead to cram the NXP products--circuits and boards, and their -specs- on slides. aug. 18 story NXP claims it has an edge in the coming robotics market because it has already been big in automotive and industrial functions, which run on tech that will work--and already works-- in robots, making up practically everything needed today in a drone or autonomous mobile robot (AMR), but only about half of what a humanoid robot needs. The high-brain functions for humanoids will need to come from Nvidia, and NXP has wisely arranged a partnership with Nvidia and its Holoscan platform for real-time processing of streaming data from sensors. For advanced robots, there will be oodles of sensors to stream out data. One company, unnamed, has told NXP it wants to put cameras or some type of vision sensor on every finger of a robot hand to be able to perform precision work. This spring, NXP announced a multi-sensor analog front-end (AFE), an electronic circuit that processes raw analog signals from sensors and translates them into digital data for a processor through an embedded analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The analog sensors can be more precise than digital sensors, according to NXP marketing representative Madhura Tapse. The AFE, a circuit only 6mm x 6mm, will be embedded into the wrist of a robot arm to support up to eight configurable analog inputs of any kind of analog sensor. No competitor has created anything comparable that has such all-in-one capabilities, Tapse said. It supports a wide temperature range, needed for robots used in industrial settings and outdoors as well. Per her slides, the AFE (dubbed NAFEB43388) will be viable for both AMRs and humanoids, helping the