TDK presents custom sensing solutions for physical AI applications at Sensors Converge 2026
TDK Corporation will showcase its custom sensing solutions at the Sensors Converge 2026 Expo, May 6 to 7 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, California (Booth #722). TDK will demonstrate a broad portfolio of advanced sensing solutions and system-level innovations with a focus on solutions from InvenSense, a TDK Group company, designed to power next-generation applications including physical AI and audio AI. Visitors can engage with experts and presentations highlighting emerging sensor technologies for real-world use cases across consumer, industrial, and automotive applications.
On May 6, 9:05 a.m., InvenSense CTO Omar Abed will deliver the keynote: “Reimagining the Human-Machine Interface: AI-Integrated Smart Glasses Powered by Advanced Sensors.” The presentation will explore sensing approaches and design strategies shaping this emerging category – along with areas where further innovation is needed across component manufacturers, system designers, and integrators.
Also on May 6, 11:25 a.m., InvenSense Director Jim Lin will present a Live Theater session titled “Visualizing the Future of Sensor Evaluation and Fusion.“ The session will demonstrate a new software solution designed to address common challenges in IMU validation, enabling developers to more accurately assess sensor performance and unlock the full capabilities of their systems.
At the TDK booth, technology highlights will include:
Sensor software solutions: Advanced sensor fusion software enables intelligent sensing, context awareness, and system-level optimization across a wide range of applications.
Sensors in smart glasses: MEMS and TMR sensing technologies, together with sensing software, enable precise motion tracking, orientation, and immersive user experiences in next-generation wearables.
Sensors in gaming: TMR and MEMS sensing solutions empower high-performance features in gaming applications, delivering precision in keyboards, steering wheels, pedals, and controllers.
MEMS microphone with Acoustic Activity Detect: Low-power audio solutions facilitate always-on sensing and intelligent voice capture for context-aware audio AI applications
MEMS product showcase: Sensors enable motion, audio, and environmental awareness for a wide range of real-world consumer and IoT applications including action cameras, fitness bands, golf clubs, smart soccer balls, concert light sticks, and more.
Automotive IMU: Automotive-grade MEMS sensors support accurate motion sensing for automotive systems, enabling dynamic headlight leveling, improved safety, and optimal performance.
InvenSense partner boards for rapid integration: Development platforms support easy integration of MEMS IMUs, ultrasonic time-of-flight sensors, and microphone solutions, accelerating system design and deployment.
AI at the Edge with Synthesized Sensor Data: TDK will announce and showcase a new artificial intelligence sensor solution which will use advanced generative AI techniques with real-world measurements allowing for synthetic data to be created to help engineers overcome data pipeline limitations to dramatically improve the scalability, performance, and reliability of intelligent systems at the edge.
Leading up to Sensors Converge, Fierce Sensors and Questex honored InvenSense CEO Joseph Bousaba as a finalist for Executive of the Year in the Best of Sensors 2026 Awards, which will be celebrated in an award ceremony on May 6 at 5:30pm at Sensors Converge. Also recognized with a Rising Star Award is Alberto Marinoni, senior director of product marketing at InvenSense.
About TDK Corporation
TDK Corporation is a global technology company and innovation leader in the electronics industry, based in Tokyo, Japan. With the tagline “In Everything, Better” TDK aims to realize a better future across all aspects of life, industry, and society. For over 90 years, TDK has shaped the world from within; from the pioneering ferrite cores to cassette tapes that defined an era, to powering the digital age with advanced components, sensors, and batteries, leading the way towards a more sustainable future. United by TDK Venture Spirit, a start-up mentality built on visions, courage and mutual trust, TDK’s passionate team members around the globe pursue better—for ourselves, customers, partners, and the world. Today, the state-of-the-art technologies of TDK are in everything, from industrial applications, energy systems, electric vehicles, to smartphones and gaming, at the core of modern life.
TDK’s comprehensive, innovative-driven portfolio includes cutting-edge passive components, sensors and sensor systems, power supplies, lithium-ion and solidstate batteries, magnetic heads, AI and enterprise software solutions, and more—featuring numerous marketleading products. These are marketed under the product brands TDK, EPCOS, InvenSense, Micronas, Tronics, TDK-Lambda, TDK SensEI, and ATL. Positioning the AI ecosystem as a key strategic area, TDK leverages its global network across the automotive, information and communication technology, and industrial equipment sectors to expand its business in a wide range of fields. In fiscal 2025, TDK posted total sales of USD 14.4 billion and employed about 105,000 people worldwide.
About InvenSense
InvenSense, a TDK group company, is a world-leading provider of custom sensing solutions for consumer electronics, industrial, and automotive applications. InvenSense solutions integrate MEMS and magnetic sensors, such as IMUs, accelerometers, gyroscopes, compasses, microphones, TMR, and ultrasonic time-offlight sensors, with proprietary algorithms and firmware that intelligently process, synthesize, and calibrate the output of sensors for maximized performance and accuracy. InvenSense solutions empower leading technology in smartphones, wearables, hearables, smart home, gaming, IoT, robotics, drones, industrial, automotive, and other applications. Headquartered in San Jose, California and with offices worldwide, InvenSense became part of the Sensor Systems Business Company of TDK Corporation in 2017.
