Battery Solution Design for Robotics
I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power. Over the last nine years I have led the design of more than forty production battery pac…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Robotics: A
I have quoted, re-quoted and post-mortemed enough robotics power programmes to know where the money actually leaks, and it is almost never the cell price….
Battery Solution Reliability for Robotics: A Field
When a fleet of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) leaves our test bay at Horizon Power, the spec sheet is never what keeps the customer’s line running. I hav…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: A Field
When a procurement manager asks me for a “robotics battery,” they are usually picturing a laptop cell in a bigger box. After fifteen years specifying custo…
Battery Solution Cost Optimization for Robotics: An
Why Robotics Presents a Different Cost Equation
Robotics buyers almost always benchmark a new pack against the price of laptop or e-bike cells they can buy…
Battery Solution Reliability for Robotics: An Engineer’s
Reliability is the only specification that matters after the purchase order is signed. I am Karl Huang, Senior Lithium Battery Engineer at Horizon Power, a…
Battery Solution Performance for Robotics: How We Engineer
When a customer asks me to design a battery solution performance robotics program, the first thing I tell them is that robots do not draw power the way a p…
Battery Solution for Custom Robotic Platforms
When a customer brings us a new autonomous machine, the first thing I tell my team is simple: the robot is only as reliable as the pack that moves it. Over…
Battery Solution for Disaster Sensor Networks
In August 2023 I stood in a mudslide-scarred valley in Sichuan province, holding a landslide early-warning node that had gone silent eleven days before the…
Battery Solution for Unmanned Surface Vessels
The first unmanned surface vessel programme I supported lost three boats in a single survey season. Not to collision, not to grounding, but to water findin…