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Four deployments, four disciplines — legged robotics, surgical devices, industrial fleets, and dexterous manipulation research. Every one running Sentient hardware in the field, not the lab.

Field Robotics

Kestrel — Quadruped Field Robot

A legged platform built for search-and-recovery in terrain no wheeled robot survives. The brief: instant recovery torque on a joint no taller than 28mm, in temperatures from Arctic cold to desert heat.

Approach — Twelve SR-T580 axial-flux pancake motors per unit, paired with SR-A100 servos at the hip, deliver 62 N·m instantaneous torque per joint while keeping the leg assembly under 28mm at the knee.

12
Actuators / Unit
40km
Field Validated
62 N·m
Peak Joint Torque
-30°/55°C
Operating Range
SR-T580SR-A100CAN-FD
HIP KNEE ANKLE
Medical Robotics

Halcyon — Surgical Manipulator

A robotically-assisted minimally invasive instrument requiring micron-level tip positioning inside a shaft narrower than a pencil — with zero tolerance for backlash or thermal drift near tissue.

Approach — SR-L200 voice coil actuators drive the wrist joint with 0.5µm resolution; SR-M420 mini servos handle jaw articulation within a 14mm diameter shaft envelope.

14mm
Shaft Diameter
0.5µm
Repeatability
2 kHz
Control Bandwidth
Class II
Clearance Pathway
SR-L200SR-M420SPI
⌀14mm SHAFT
Industrial Automation

Atlas Line — Industrial AMR Fleet

A 400-unit autonomous mobile robot fleet running 24/7 across a warehouse network, requiring functional-safety-rated steering actuation that survives a decade of continuous duty.

Approach — Every unit ships with SR-E700 EtherCAT-integrated modules for steering and drive — SIL2/PLd Safe Torque Off built into a single 70×70mm board.

400
Units Deployed
99.998%
Fleet Uptime
125µs
Bus Cycle Time
2yr+
Continuous Duty
SR-E700EtherCATSIL 2 / PLd
STEER AXIS
Dexterous Manipulation

Orbit — Dexterous Hand Platform

An open research platform packing 20 degrees of freedom into a human-scale hand envelope, built for labs pushing manipulation and grasping research beyond simple grippers.

Approach — SR-M420 mini servos at each knuckle paired with SR-H350 hollow-shaft harmonic drives at the wrist, routing tendon cabling cleanly through the joint axis.

20
Degrees of Freedom
190g
Per-Joint Mass
6
University Labs
<1 arc-min
Wrist Backlash
SR-M420SR-H350ROS 2

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