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Autonomous Hardware Lab

Engineering what moves,
senses, and communicates.

Robotics, automation, and RF/wireless — designed and built under one roof.
Your team gets production-ready hardware and the tools to iterate independently.

Discuss Your Hardware Challenge

30 min • Free Consultation • NDA Available

$3K
Starting — Focused Exp.
1 Wk
Kickoff to Lab Results
1:1
Senior Eng. No Delegation.
100%
Full IP Ownership Transferred
01
The Problem

Hardware questions that don't get answered.
Designs that don't get maintained.

Teams hit robotics, automation, and RF problems they can't solve without specialized equipment and expertise. And when a consultant finally fixes it, the team can't maintain the solution after they leave.

"We needed a robot cell that could handle our assembly line AND wireless connectivity for remote monitoring. One contractor did the automation but couldn't touch the RF. The RF guy didn't understand our motion requirements. We spent months bouncing between specialists."
— Hardware startup founder
SYSTEM_LOG // Common Failure Modes
  • "We need a robot cell but don't have the automation expertise in-house."
  • "Our PLC code is a mess and nobody knows how to maintain it."
  • "We have an RF question but no lab equipment to answer it."
  • "One impedance mismatch tanked our entire product and we couldn't figure out why."
  • "We can't find an engineer who understands both the physical system and the wireless — and a full-time hire at $180K+ isn't in the budget."
  • "The consultant left and nobody on our team understands the files he delivered."
02
The Lab

Not a Consultancy. A Lab.

Autonomous hardware needs two things — the ability to act and the ability to communicate. We started in robotics and industrial automation, then went deep into RF. When your system needs to move, sense, and communicate, you get one lab that engineers the complete system.

SYS_CAM_01 // ACTIVE
Sparkreate Studio autonomous hardware lab with robotics test rig, PLC controllers, VNA, and spectrum analyzer

Automate

PLCs, servo drives, robot controllers, and embedded dev boards. We build the physical system from the ground up.

Measure

VNA, spectrum analyzer, signal gen, and oscilloscope. We characterize and prove the wireless layer with hard data.

Integrate & Tool

Findings become designs. Designs become automated workflows. We transfer the capability so your team owns everything.

03
Engagement Options

Start With a Question.
End With a Solution.

From a focused experiment to full RF product development. Every engagement produces data your team can use — not black-box deliverables.

Start Here

Focused Experiment

Est. 1 - 4 Weeks

Answer a specific hardware question with lab-grade data. RF measurement, automation proof-of-concept, or embedded feasibility study. No commitment — just get the answer you need.

  • Focused measurement or proof-of-concept
  • Documented experiment methodology
  • Data analysis & visualization
  • Written findings & recommendation
  • Go/no-go or design direction
$3K – 10K / experiment
Complete Solution

Full Hardware Dev

Est. 12 - 24 Weeks

End-to-end: from the first experiment through production readiness. Robotics integration, RF system design, embedded controls, compliance pathway, and a tool suite your team uses long after we're done.

  • Everything in Investigation & Design
  • Full system integration (auto + RF + power)
  • EMC pre-compliance testing
  • FCC/CE regulatory pathway guidance
  • Production test fixture design
  • Custom workflow & data processing suite
  • 90-day post-delivery support
$50K – 150K+ / project
04
Our Process

From Hypothesis to
Team Independence in 5 Phases

Research rigor meets engineering pragmatism. Whether your system needs to move, sense, communicate, or all three — we start with what you don't know, and end with your team owning the solution.

1

Investigate

Define the critical question and architect the experiment required to answer it.

2

Measure

Run rigorous physical experiments and collect lab-grade empirical data.

3

Design

Translate the empirical findings directly into a robust hardware architecture.

4

Validate

Build the physical prototype and verify system performance against the baseline.

5

Deliver & Tool

Transfer all IP, documentation, training, and custom workflow automation back to your team.

SYS_LOG // Core Philosophy

"We don't just answer your hardware question. We turn the answer into a design, and the design into team capability."

05
Deliverables

What You Get

Research data, production-ready designs, and workflow automation — everything documented so your team can use it without us.

OUT_01

Lab Data & Analysis

Measurement data, experiment methodology, statistical analysis, and actionable findings — not raw dumps, but engineered conclusions.

OUT_02

Automation Architecture

PLC programs, motion profiles, robot cell layouts, and control systems — designed for your production environment with documented I/O maps.

OUT_03

RF & Electronic Schematics

LNA, PA, filter, matching network, and embedded controller designs with component selection rationale and design margin analysis.

OUT_04

Embedded Firmware & PCB

Production-ready firmware, controlled-impedance PCB routing, and embedded system integration — from microcontroller selection to production test.

OUT_05

Simulation & Modeling

S-parameter models, motion simulations, control system models, and RF filter responses — documented so your team can modify and re-run them.

OUT_06

Test Procedures

RF measurement protocols, automation commissioning procedures, and pass/fail criteria your team can execute for ongoing validation.

OUT_07 // KEY VALUE

Custom Engineering Workflows

Automated data pipelines, PLC monitoring dashboards, simulation post-processing, and tool integration workflows — so your team runs the process, not just the software.

06
Beyond the Lab

Your Hardware Works.
Now Make the Whole System Work.

Studio builds what moves, senses, and communicates. But when the bottleneck isn't hardware — it's the handoffs between teams, tools, and domains — that's Ops.

SYS_LOG // Cross-Domain Engineering

Sparkreate Ops closes the engineering blind spots between design, manufacturing, and systems.

  • Cross-domain engineering audits — find the real bottleneck
  • Deployed software and predictive models — not reports
  • Knowledge capture before your best engineer walks out
  • Workflow automation that solves the system, not one step
Explore Ops
$10K
Starting — Engineering Audit
$120K+
Saved per product cycle
07
Start Your Project

Building something that
moves, senses, or communicates?

Schedule a free consultation. Tell us about your autonomous hardware challenge and we'll tell you how we'd approach it, what it would cost, and whether we're the right lab for it.

30 Minutes • No Commitment • NDA Available