RobotX

Services

Electronics, firmware and the robots built on them

RobotX is an electronics and embedded engineering team first. We design the boards, write the firmware and build the sensors ourselves, then put that foundation to work in robots, automation, power electronics and medical devices. Clear scope, fixed milestones and documentation you can build on.

Built from scratch

We build the stack ourselves, not around third-party boxes

Many integrators wire vendor modules together and design around their limits. RobotX designs the electronics, writes the firmware and, when nothing off the shelf fits, builds the sensor too. You get hardware sized for your product, firmware your team can maintain, and one company accountable for the whole stack.

  • Boards designed in house, from the first schematic to fabrication files
  • Firmware written from the register level, not stitched-together SDK samples
  • Custom sensors and measurement chains when the catalogue runs out
Close-up of a densely populated printed circuit board

How engagements work

A clear path from first contact to delivery

  1. 01

    Scope

    Tell us about your project by booking a session or sending a quote request. We clarify goals, constraints and deliverables together.

  2. 02

    Quote or session

    Either you receive a fixed quote broken into milestones, or we work through the problem live in a paid consulting session.

  3. 03

    Delivery

    Work is delivered milestone by milestone with source files, reports and documentation. You own the results.

01

Electronics & PCB Design

The discipline every RobotX project stands on. We design the circuit, select the components and lay out the board in house, then carry it through fabrication and bring-up to a tested prototype.

Service details
What's included
  • Schematic design & component engineering
  • Power supplies, motor drives & analog front ends
  • RF & wireless circuit integration
  • Prototype bring-up & board-level testing
02

High-Speed PCB Design

Boards where the layout is part of the circuit: DDR memory, LVDS, USB 3 and gigabit Ethernet. We route to controlled impedance and prove the timing budget before fabrication, not after it.

Service details
What's included
  • DDR3/DDR4 routing & length matching
  • LVDS, USB 3 & gigabit Ethernet interfaces
  • Controlled-impedance stackups built on the fab's data
  • Skew, crosstalk & termination control
03

Signal & Power Integrity

SI and PI engineering with HyperLynx-class simulation. We set impedance, timing and power budgets before layout, then verify the routed board against them, so the first spin behaves like the model.

Service details
What's included
  • Pre-layout SI budgets & routing constraints
  • Post-layout verification & eye-diagram analysis
  • PDN impedance analysis & decoupling design
  • IR drop, return paths & EMC risk review
04

PCB Thermal & Reliability Simulation

Heat and lifetime treated as design inputs, not surprises. We model the board and its enclosure, size the copper for the current it carries and derate components for the environment they will live in.

Service details
What's included
  • Board & enclosure thermal modelling
  • Copper sizing & current-carrying analysis
  • Component derating & worst-case analysis
  • Cooling strategy: heatsinks, airflow & thermal vias
05

Multilayer & HDI PCB Design

Stackups from 4 to 16 layers, HDI with microvias and dense mixed-signal layouts. Every stackup is agreed with the fabricator, so impedance, cost and yield are settled before the first panel.

Service details
What's included
  • Stackup design from 4 to 16 layers
  • HDI, microvias & fine-pitch BGA fanout
  • DFM agreed directly with the fabricator
  • Mixed-signal partitioning & grounding
06

Bare-Metal & RTOS Firmware

Firmware written from the register level up: C on bare metal, FreeRTOS and Zephyr on STM32 and other Arm targets. Drivers, bootloaders and OTA updates on an architecture your team can maintain.

Service details
What's included
  • Bare-metal C & RTOS architecture (FreeRTOS, Zephyr)
  • Peripheral drivers, DMA & interrupt design
  • Secure bootloaders & OTA update pipelines
  • Motor control & closed-loop algorithms
07

Embedded Linux Development

Custom Linux images built with Yocto and Buildroot for industrial gateways, HMIs and edge devices. BSP bring-up, kernel drivers and update mechanisms engineered to survive years in the field.

Service details
What's included
  • Yocto & Buildroot image engineering
  • BSP bring-up & kernel driver development
  • Industrial gateways & edge devices
  • Secure boot, filesystems & fleet updates
08

IoT & Connectivity Systems

Connected devices designed from the radio up: LoRa and LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, BLE, 4G/LTE and GPS/GNSS. Device hardware, firmware, secure provisioning and the dashboards that run the fleet, from one team.

Service details
What's included
  • LoRa/LoRaWAN, Wi-Fi, BLE & 4G/LTE device design
  • GPS/GNSS tracking & telemetry
  • Fleet provisioning, security & OTA management
  • Live dashboards, alerting & data pipelines
09

Engineering Design Review

An independent expert pass over your schematics, PCB layout, firmware or mechanical design before you commit to fabrication. A focused 90-minute session catches expensive mistakes while they are still cheap.

Service details
What's included
  • Schematic & PCB layout review with a written report
  • Firmware & control architecture review
  • SI, power & EMC risk flags before fabrication
  • A prioritized fix list you can act on the same day

Robotics on a solid base

Robots engineered from the board up

Our robotics work stands on the same foundation: motion control boards, drives and firmware we design ourselves. When a machine misbehaves, we debug it down to the schematic instead of waiting on a vendor.

10

Custom Robot Build

A complete machine from a blank page: mechanics, control electronics we design ourselves, firmware written in house and commissioning at your site. One accountable team, no third-party black boxes.

Service details
What's included
  • Concept, feasibility & mechanical design
  • Custom control electronics, not bought-in modules
  • Control firmware & operator interfaces
  • Factory acceptance testing & on-site commissioning
11

MVP to Market-Ready Product

Take a working prototype to a product you can manufacture, certify and sell. We redesign the electronics for production, harden the firmware and walk the certification path with you.

Service details
What's included
  • Dev board to custom PCB redesign
  • DFM review, BOM cost-down & sourcing
  • Certification path (CE, FCC, UKCA basics)
  • Pilot production & test fixture planning
12

Industrial Robotics & Automation

Robotic cells and automation lines engineered around your process. Because we design the electronics and firmware ourselves, integration goes deeper than wiring vendor boxes together, and the safety case is part of the package.

Service details
What's included
  • Cell design, integration & custom EOAT
  • PLC, motion control & ROS 2 integration
  • Safety system design & risk assessment
  • Throughput & cycle-time optimisation
13

Autonomous Mobile Systems

Ground platforms that navigate real facilities using LIDAR, vision and sensor fusion. We design the compute and sensor electronics, write the navigation stack and prove the system in your environment.

Service details
What's included
  • SLAM, localisation & sensor fusion
  • Path planning & obstacle avoidance
  • Custom compute & sensor interface boards
  • Fleet software, indoor & outdoor navigation
14

Custom Sensors & Measurement

When no catalogue sensor fits, we build one. Analog front ends, precision measurement chains and calibrated sensor modules designed in house, with the electronics and firmware to match.

Service details
What's included
  • Analog front ends & precision measurement chains
  • Force, temperature, current & position sensing
  • Calibration & compensation procedures
  • Sensor modules with I2C, SPI, RS-485 & CAN interfaces
15

Power Electronics & Battery Systems

Converters, chargers and switching stages designed around efficiency and heat. From battery gauging and balancing to kilowatt-class DC-DC, we size the magnetics, the semiconductors and the cooling together.

Service details
What's included
  • DC-DC converters, boost stages & UPS design
  • Battery charging, balancing, gauging & protection
  • High-power switching with thermal management
  • Efficiency, EMC & safety margins proven on the bench
16

Medical & Wearable Device Electronics

Precision analog and ultra-low-power design for devices worn on the body. Biosignal front ends, calibrated measurement chains and wireless links, engineered inside the space and battery budget a wearable allows.

Service details
What's included
  • Biosignal front ends such as ECG & impedance measurement
  • Ultra-low-power design inside a wearable battery budget
  • Precision analog chains, calibration & noise control
  • Design files & test evidence for your regulatory path

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