Sensors & Hardware
How Batteries and BMS Work — Molicel, DJI, Samsung SDI
What determines a robot's or drone's range and safety isn't the motor or the sensor suite — it's the battery and its BMS (Battery Management System). From the electrochemistry of lithium-ion cells to cell balancing and protection circuits, we compare real specs from Molicel's high-discharge cells, DJI's intelligent flight batteries, and Samsung SDI's push into next-generation solid-state batteries — and look at what the Boeing 787 fire taught the industry about the limits of a BMS.