Qualcomm's New Arduino Ventuno Q Is An Ai-focused Computer Designed For Robotics

Qualcomm, which purchased microcontroller committee shaper Arduino past year, conscionable announced a caller single-board machine that marries AI pinch robotics. Called nan Arduino Ventuno Q, it uses Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 processor on pinch a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU). "Ventuno Q is engineered specifically for systems that move, manipulate and respond to nan beingness world pinch precision and reliability," nan institution wrote connected nan product page.

The Ventuno Q is much blase (and expensive) than Arduinio's accustomed AIO boards, acknowledgment to nan Dragonwing IQ8 processor that includes an 8-core ARM Cortex CPU, Adreno Arm Cortex A623 GPU and Hexagon Tensor NPU that tin deed up ot 40 TOPs. It besides comes pinch 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, on pinch 64GB of eMMC retention and an M.2 NVME Gen.4 slot to grow that. Other features see Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps ethernet and USB camera support.

The Ventuno Q includes Arudino App Lab, pinch pre-trained AI models including LLMs, VLMs, ASR, motion recognition, airs estimation and entity tracking, each moving offline. It's designed for AI systems that tally wholly offline for illustration smart kiosks, healthcare assistants and postulation travel analysis, on pinch Edge AI imagination and sensing systems. It besides supports a afloat robotics stack including imagination processing mixed pinch deterministic centrifugal power for precise imagination and manipulation. It's besides perfect for acquisition and investigation successful areas for illustration machine vision, generative AI and prototyping astatine nan edge, according to Arduino.

"With Ventuno Q, AI tin yet move from nan unreality into nan beingness world," Qualcomm wrote. "This level enables building machines that perceive, decide, and enactment — each connected a azygous board. Our extremity is to make precocious robotics and separator AI accessible to each developer, educator, and innovator." The Arduino Ventuno Q will beryllium disposable successful Q2 2026 from nan Arduino Store and elsewhere and is expected to costs nether $300.