VectorNav Technologies

IMUs & Motion Sensing Tier 2Humanoid and Exoskeleton

High-accuracy MEMS IMUs and GPS/INS systems; military-grade inertial navigation

Category: IMUs & Motion Sensing
Application: Humanoid and Exoskeleton
Supply tier: Tier 2Components that go into a tier 1 assembly — gearboxes, encoders, sensors, electronics.
NDAA compliant: Yes
Website: www.vectornav.com

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Robot heading, orientation & velocity estimation; high-precision gait analysis

Alternatives in IMUs & Motion Sensing

8 other vendors in this category — the second-source shortlist.

Bosch Sensortec

BMI Series IMUs, accelerometers, gyroscopes, environmental sensors for mobile & robotics

Wireless inclinometers/tiltmeters, dynamic inclinometers, IMUs, VRUs and electronic compasses (LoRaWAN/WiFi/4G LTE connectivity)

MEMS sensor solutions for attitude sensing, positioning/navigation and condition monitoring

InvenSense (TDK)NDAA

MEMS IMUs, gyroscopes, accelerometers widely used in consumer & robotics

MEMS tilt sensors, 3D electronic compasses and digital tilt meters

Inertial navigation systems, INS/GPS integrated navigation, MEMS inertial sensors and IMU modules

STMicroelectronics

IMUs (ISM330, LSM6DSR), accelerometers, gyroscopes, MCUs, PMICs; full robotics semiconductor portfolio Also supplies STM32 MCU families and the STM32MP2 MPU with NPU for real-time robotics compute.

High-precision attitude sensors, AHRS/IMU, inertial navigation and RTK positioning