STDA047 September   2026 AWR2188 , AWR2944P , IWR6243 , IWR6843 , IWR6843AOP , IWRL6432

 

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  2.   Abstract
  3.   Trademarks
  4. 1Why Radar in Robotics
  5. 2Why TI mmWave FMCW Radar for Robotics?
  6. 3Radar Products for any Robotics Application
  7. 4TI mmWave Radar Portfolio for Robotics
  8. 5Robotics Market Requirements – What Radar Solves
    1. 5.1 Humanoid and Bipedal Robots
    2. 5.2 Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMR)
    3. 5.3 Industrial Fixed-Mount Radar
    4. 5.4 Medical and Surgical Robotics
  9. 6Recommended Products
    1. 6.1 High Resolution IWR6243 Cascade Radar
      1. 6.1.1 Reference Design
      2. 6.1.2 Hardware Stack
      3. 6.1.3 Software Stack
    2. 6.2 Form Factor Optimized IWR6843 AOP Radar
      1. 6.2.1 Reference Design
  10. 7Design and Documentation Support
    1. 7.1 Tools and Software
    2. 7.2 Documentation Support
    3. 7.3 Resources
  11. 8Acknowledgments

Humanoid and Bipedal Robots

Key applications: Human-robot coexistence, safety bubble enforcement, full-body scene awareness

IWR6243 Humanoid Robot in Warehouse Figure 5-1 Humanoid Robot in Warehouse
  • Human-Robot Safety Bubble: Tiered proximity zones (4 levels: stop, slow, caution, nominal) around the full robot torso. Radar provides range and velocity at each zone boundary; camera alone cannot disambiguate velocity at zone edges. IEC 61508 SIL 2 certification supports the functional safety argument required for unguarded human coexistence.
  • Human Detection and Classification: In this application, Distinguishing human workers from other robots and static infrastructure in dense factory environments. Requires high angular resolution and per-point Doppler velocity; the output of a cascaded IWR6243 fed directly to an AI inference pipeline on NVIDIA® Jetson Thor or equivalent compute.