San Diego · Est. 2025 · Embedded Systems & Robotics

Built for Robots. Not Adapted From a Dev Board.

KadCore brings deterministic motion control, sensing, connectivity, and hardware safety into one purpose-built platform for advanced robotics.

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Kadavi Innovations LLC · San Diego, CA
Multi-Axis Actuator Control
Flexible Power Architecture
Hardware Safety Control
Real-Time Deterministic Control
ROS2 micro-ROS Native
CAN-FD + WiFi + BLE
Why KadCore

Designed for Legged Robots. Not Retrofitted.

Every controller on the market is either a general-purpose MCU board or a full Linux SBC. KadCore is purpose-built — real-time where it must be, connected where it should be, and safe by hardware design.

Hardware Safety

Safety-critical power and actuator controls are enforced in hardware, providing a defined safe state independent of application software.

Safety by design

Responsive Sensing & Interaction

Designed to integrate voice, vision, and environmental sensing while preserving responsive real-time behavior and efficient system operation.

Built for responsive interaction

Deterministic Real-Time Control

Time-critical motion and safety workloads remain deterministic while the platform supports connectivity, sensing, and higher-level application processing.

Predictable timing

Upgrade Path Built In

KadCore is engineered as a long-term platform — modular by design, with room to expand capability as your project and the robotics ecosystem evolve. Same connectors, same footprint, forward-compatible software.

Future-proof platform
Platform Architecture

Three Jobs. Done Right.

KadCore is organized around clear sensing, control, and actuation domains — designed for predictable timing, modular integration, and safe system behavior.

PERCEIVE
  • Vision
  • Audio
  • Motion sensing
  • Positioning
  • Expansion
THINK
  • Real-time control
  • Wireless connectivity
  • Robotics middleware
  • Field buses
  • Sensor processing
ACT
  • Multi-axis actuation
  • Hardware safety
  • Power management
  • Smart actuators
  • Expandable I/O

Hardware-enforced safety: critical actuator and power behavior is designed to reach a defined safe state independently of application software.

Configurations

Choose Your Starting Point

KadCore ships in two configurations. Start with Core and expand as your project grows — same platform, more capability.

KadCore — Core
KadCore
A real-time robotics control foundation for motion, sensing, and connectivity
Pricing on request
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  • ✓Deterministic real-time motion control
  • ✓Wireless + wired robotics connectivity
  • ✓Multi-axis actuator interfaces
  • ✓Vision and audio expansion support
  • ✓Hardware-enforced safety
  • ✓Integrated sensing and power telemetry
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KadCore+ — Extended
KadCore+
Expanded sensing, interfaces, and companion-compute integration
Pricing on request
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  • ✓Everything in Config A
  • ✓Additional sensing and positioning options
  • ✓Display and human-interface expansion
  • ✓Enhanced audio / sensor expansion
  • ✓Additional industrial interfaces
  • ✓Companion-compute expansion
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Engineering Platform

Purpose-Built Robotics Hardware

KadCore is engineered as a dedicated robotics platform, combining deterministic control, connectivity, sensing, expansion, and hardware safety in a compact design.

Architecture

Target architecture — how the platform is organized

Bring-Up Board
KadCore bring-up board render — purpose-built robotics control platform

Engineering validation hardware used to prove the platform architecture

KadCore engineering platform · architecture shown at a functional level

Real-Time Control
Wireless + Vision Processing
Audio / Interaction Expansion
Motion Sensing
Power Management + Hardware Safety

Product documentation and integration guidance are provided to customers and development partners.

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Services

We Build Embedded Products.
Yours Could Be Next.

We take on embedded engineering engagements as a technical partner — one team, full ownership from hardware to firmware, led by a former Apple Senior Manager, Firmware with 20+ years of experience and backed by 10+ embedded and robotics specialists who are genuinely passionate about the craft.

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Former Apple Senior Manager, Firmware  ·  Founder-led, Every Engagement
20+ years building embedded systems at scale · Now applying that precision to your project
Apple alumni 20+ yrs embedded San Diego, CA US-based LLC
10+ embedded & robotics engineers — a close-knit team engaged on every project with the same passion that built KadCore
What most teams experience
Fragmented work — no one owns the full picture
Timezone friction, communication overhead
Weak IP protection, unclear accountability
You manage pieces — not the outcome
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Working with Kadavi
One team, one contract — full scope ownership
US-based, your timezone, your legal system
NDA-ready, IP assignment standard, fixed-fee
You describe the problem — we deliver the solution
San Diego, CA · US LLC
NDA-ready · IP assignment standard
Fixed-fee · No hourly surprises
Embedded only · This is all we do
Proof of work: KadCore is real, working hardware — a quadruped robot controller built in-house to the same standard we apply to every client engagement.
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University labs Robotics startups Industrial IoT Medical devices Defense & inspection
01 — PCB Design

Custom Hardware

Motor control, power management, real-time MCUs. Schematic through layout to production-ready Gerbers, BOM, and DFM review.

SchematicPCB Layout BOMDFM
02 — Firmware

Embedded Software

Real-time OS, wireless stacks, ROS2 integration. Low-level HAL drivers through application layer — tested, documented, maintainable.

FreeRTOSROS2 WiFi / BLECAN-FD
03 — Integration

Full System Integration

Gait control, sensor fusion, Nav2, perception pipelines. Bring your concept — we build the complete system from controller to autonomy layer.

Gait ControlNav2 Sensor FusionSLAM

We don't take embedded projects to fill a calendar. Embedded systems are what we build for ourselves — KadCore exists because we set out to solve a hard problem in robotics. When you engage us, that same standard comes with it.

Engagement Tiers · Scope & Deliverables
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Free Initial Project Review
Every engagement starts with a no-cost 60-minute technical review — we assess your architecture, surface the real risks, and give you a plain recommendation. No sales deck. No commitment. You walk away with actionable clarity regardless of whether we work together.
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Monthly · Ongoing
Technical Advisory
Architecture · Review · Guidance
Monthly retainer
up to 20 hrs · scoped on request
Architecture reviews and design decisions
Schematic and firmware code review
Weekly sync call + async response
Written recommendations you own
EARLY STAGENO COMMITMENT
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3 Months · Fixed Fee
IoT Product Build
MCU + Connectivity + Cloud
Fixed fee · milestone payments
quoted after your free technical review
Hardware design — schematic, layout, BOM, Gerbers
Firmware — RTOS, drivers, wireless stack
Cloud pipeline + OTA update architecture
Full documentation and IP handover
STM32 · NRF52WIFI / BLEFREERTOS
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★ Most Requested
3–4 Months · Fixed Fee
Robotics Firmware
Real-Time · ROS2 · CAN-FD
Fixed fee · milestone payments
quoted after your free technical review
Motor control — gait, servo, actuator loops
Sensor fusion — IMU, encoders, force/torque
ROS2 / micro-ROS integration + CAN-FD
Hardware E-STOP and safety architecture
STM32H7FREERTOSROS2CAN-FD
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4–6 Months · Fixed Fee
AI-Capable Robotics
Jetson Inference · Vision · Voice
Fixed fee · milestone payments
quoted after your free technical review
Full STM32 real-time control stack
Jetson Orin Nano integration + carrier board
Vision pipeline — YOLO, SLAM, person tracking
Voice pipeline — wake word, STT, LLM
JETSON ORINYOLO / NPUNAV2VOICE
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6 Months · Extended
Long-Term Partner
Full Stack Ownership
Fixed fee · priority access
quoted after your free technical review
Dedicated team — same engineers, full continuity
Hardware + firmware concept to production-ready
DFM review, manufacturing liaison, bring-up
Priority scheduling — your project comes first
DEDICATED TEAMPRODUCTION-READYDFM
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Custom Scope
Medical / Defense
Safety-Critical · Regulated
Custom scope · NDA first
quoted after your free technical review
IEC 62304 firmware lifecycle documentation
FDA pre-submission preparation support
Safety-critical RTOS design (MISRA-adjacent)
NDAA-compliant component sourcing
IEC 62304FDA-ADJACENTSAFETY-CRITICAL
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How every partnership starts

"Let's start with your problem,
not our pitch."

Every engagement begins with an honest technical conversation — no sales deck, no commitment. We'll tell you plainly what we think your options are, and whether we're the right partner to build it.

—Your architecture, constraints, and unknowns
—What's been tried and why it may not have worked
—Recommended approach and risks we see
—Whether Kadavi is the right fit — honestly
60 min
Video call
No prep needed
No charge
Start a technical conversation
Opens Calendly · Pick a time that works for you
01
Understand
Honest conversation about your problem — no pitch
02
Propose
Written scope, timeline, and fixed-fee cost
03
Build
One team delivers files, firmware, and docs
Partners

Built to Work at Any Scale

Kadavi works with a global network of embedded and robotics engineering partners to deliver on engagements of any scope and scale — so the right expertise is always available for your project.

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Integrate with KadCore

Simulation platforms, software toolchains, and robotics integrators working with legged platforms are welcome to explore technical partnerships with Kadavi.

contact@kadavi-innovations.com
About

Kadavi Innovations LLC

An embedded systems and robotics engineering company based in San Diego, California. We build KadCore — the platform — and take on engineering services engagements for clients who need custom hardware and firmware built right. The same engineers who designed KadCore work on your project.

San Diego, CA Embedded Systems Robotics Est. 2025
Kadavi Innovations

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