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A developer borrowed a trick from Google's Gemma models to fit a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 ESP32 chip.

Luxonis’ $249 M8 Controller Box links OAK4 edge AI cameras straight to industrial hardware for low-latency, PC-free automation.

Oliver Paff's DIY robot legs are the perfect illustration of how far the maker community has come.

This method from Mecharonix for 3D-printing PCBs is easy enough that you can put a PCB in any project.

Sony IMX900-based camera provides a practical platform for machine vision, robotics and embedded imaging development Image Quality Labs, Inc. (IQL) has introduced the Hummingbird, a Raspberry Pi camera platform built around Sony’s 3.2-megapixel IMX900 global-shutter image sensor. Designed for computer vision applications involving moving objects, the platform combines an IQL fixed-focus camera mo…

Here's a roundup of this week's must-read articles. We'll look into the latest developments on fault-tolerant quantum computers, why sustained performance will define the next phase of edge AI, and a partnership on agentic AI for EDA to automate complex engineering tasks. Also, check News Archives - Embedded and Technical Articles Archives - Embedded for the complete list of [...] The post Fault-…

Scottina is a pocket-sized, Pi-powered front panel that strips away clutter to put instant hardware diagnostics right at your fingertips.

Glen Akins built mini 3D-printed traffic barrels with PIC12 microcontrollers that blink and drift out of sync just like the real thing.

ESP-KVM turns an ESP32-P4 into an open source, browser-based IP KVM for full remote PC control at the hardware level.

Mikroe has partnered with Swift Navigation to integrate the Skylark Precise Positioning Service into its GNSS 19 Click development board, providing users with a free six-month license to the cloud-based correction service. The collaboration is intended to simplify access to high-accuracy global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning for developers working on industrial, automotive, and Io…

First stable release marks the biggest milestone yet in the years-long porting project necessitated by Arm's closure of Mbed.

Those buying in single-unit quantities should watch out for the near-$35 shipping fee, though.

Ken Wenger, Founder and CTO at Squint Cognition, demonstrates Squint Vision Studio, the company’s AI safety and performance tooling for vision-based systems, at the 2026 Embedded Vision Summit. Squint Vision Studio is built for anywhere a confidently wrong perception model is a liability; inventory and loss prevention, industrial, agriculture, defense, aerospace. Costly at best, hazardous […] The…

Ken Wenger, Founder and CTO at Squint Cognition, demonstrates the company’s squinting model technology at the 2026 Embedded Vision Summit. Using Skittles and M&Ms, Wenger shows where a standard YOLO object detection model confuses one candy for the other; and does so with high confidence, offering no signal that anything is wrong. He then runs […] The post Squint Cognition Demonstration of Catchi…

This blog post was originally published at e-con Systems’ website. It is reprinted here with the permission of e-con Systems. True operational autonomy requires more than mapping since robots have stringent expectations to meet. They must manage their own energy, return to charge when needed, and resume their missions without human intervention. e-con Systems has developed […] The post How Robot …

Testing the HTVRONT D2 DTF Printer, the A3 DTF Oven, and the A100 Auto Multi Heat Press

Sovol went ahead and put both IDEX and tool changing into their new M1D 3D printer.

This library lets you get full-HD video at 60Hz from a Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32, using a simple USB display adapter.

Renesas Electronics Corp. has launched its third‑generation (Gen 3) DDR5 multiplexed rank dual in‑line memory module (MRDIMM) chipset solutions with server-class MRDIMM speeds up to 16,000 mega transfers per second (MT/s). The new devices include the RRG5013 multiplexed registering clock driver (MRCD) and RRG5103 multiplexed data buffer (MDB). Targeting increased demand for higher memory bandwidt…

On August 26, 2026 at 10:00 am PT (1:00 pm ET), Intel will present the webinar “Multi-Agent & Hybrid AI with Intel® AI Super Builder and OpenVINO™ Model Server.” Here’s the description, from the event registration page: In this session, we’ll walk through a practical approach to building AI applications using Intel® AI Super Builder, […] The post Upcoming Webinar on Intel AI Super Builder and Ope…

Researchers built a wireless receiver that powers drones using laser light and recycled waste heat.

Avnet Silica details why sustained performance, not peak compute, will define the next phase of edge AI. The post Why Sustained Performance Defines the Next Phase of Edge AI appeared first on Embedded .

SensWear is an open source, full-stack platform built to fast-track your wearable tech from concept to working prototype.

QuadBoat is a spider-inspired robot built to locate, retrieve, and transport drowning victims to safety when every second counts.

Ritik Shrivastava, Solutions Architect at BrainChip, demonstrates Akida micro-doppler radar classification, a powerful radar-based object classification solution that runs entirely on-device without internet connection. Shrivastava showcases a live demo using BrainChip’s AKD1500 card attached to a Raspberry Pi, where the system detects and classifies between a bird and drone target in real time u…

Tharak Krishnan, Director of Product Management at BrainChip, demonstrates the AKD1500 — BrainChip’s ultra-low power Edge AI Co-Processor — at the 2026 Embedded Vision Summit. Already deployed in real-world applications such as epileptic seizure prediction and drowning swimmer detection, the AKD1500 is purpose-built for use cases where power consumption and battery life are critical constraints. …

This video was originally published at OpenCV’s website. It is republished here with the permission of OpenCV. Our guest is Alireza Taheritajar, a Ph.D. Student an Augusta University focusing on In-Situ Intelligent Mixed Reality Assistants for Adaptive Human-AI Collaboration. Mixed-reality overlays have been around for awhile, but with the recent upgrades in camera quality, lens […] The post In-S…

HILLSBORO, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Jul. 27, 2026– Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced the completion of its acquisition of AMI. First announced on May 4, 2026, the acquisition creates the industry’s most complete secure management and control platform. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to gross margin, free cash flow, and ear…

CHANDLER, Ariz., July 24, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — (NASDAQ: MCHP) – Microchip Technology Incorporated, a leading provider of smart, connected, and secure embedded control solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hailo, a provider of accelerated edge AI processors, advanced vision processing solutions, robotics processors and comprehensive AI software flows. […

BrainChip Inc. has introduced a new M.2 version of its AKD1500 edge AI accelerator, enabling compact, fanless, and plug-and-play deployment of neuromorphic artificial intelligence capabilities in industrial and commercial systems. Based on the Akida neuromorphic processor architecture, the module provides hardware designers with a low-power solution for adding on-device AI functionality to existi…

NI Nigel AI enhancements accelerate test productivity by up to 50 percent. The post Emerson Expands AI Capabilities Across Test Environment appeared first on Embedded .

News Summary: NVIDIA expands NVIDIA Agent Toolkit with re-architected NVIDIA PhysicsNeMo libraries and updated NVIDIA CUDA-X libraries, enabling software developers to build autonomous AI engineers with AI physics skills, accelerated solvers and quantum chemistry capabilities. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra leads among open models in agentic register-transfer level coding with the ACE-RTL agent from NVI…

Using 3LC’s visualization dashboard, we can quickly recognize patterns within the wildfire detection dataset and address ground-truth labeling inaccuracies. Firstly, by visualizing how images are distributed in the model’s latent embedding space, we can intelligently remove redundant scenes that are feeding the model duplicate information. Next, by applying filters to key prediction metrics we ca…

3LC Hub provides a centralized platform for managing and organizing the datasets that power AI systems. Using advanced data-centric AI algorithms, the platform continuously analyzes your data and surfaces actionable recommendations to identify labeling issues, uncover edge cases, improve data quality, and optimize model performance. Users can seamlessly launch into the appropriate views and workf…

This blog post was originally published at Infineon’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of Infineon. Infineon and Hackster.io have launched PSOC™ Edge City, a guided educational developer program designed to build practical expertise with PSOC™ Edge technologies — at your own pace, through structured learning and hands-on challenges. What Is PSOC™ Edge City? […] The post Introduci…

You can now make custom apps to control your camera easily! This news blog post was originally published at OpenMV’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of OpenMV. Hi Everyone! We’re finally here! v5.0.0 of the OpenMV firmware has been released! The new firmware finally takes the OpenMV AE3 and N6 out of beta […] The post OpenMV V5.0.0 Firmware Released! appeared first on Edge AI an…

TDK and LG Innotek have entered into a strategic partnership to develop sensing technologies for physical AI applications, with an initial focus on next-generation vision and tactile sensing modules for humanoid robots. The collaboration combines LG Innotek's expertise in optical systems and ultra-precision module design with TDK's sensor technology portfolio to create integrated solutions that […

After early proof-of-concept demonstrations, quantum computing (QC) and quantum sensing (QS) are quickly moving toward practical technologies. While much focus is devoted to increasing the number of qubits to make quantum processors more capable, an equally important effort is directed at improving their quality. Quantum systems are extremely sensitive to the environment they interact with, [...]…

Synopsys has expanded its agentic AI strategy for electronic design automation (EDA) by introducing autonomous chip design workflows developed in collaboration with AMD and Microsoft. The new workflows are available for evaluation on Microsoft Discovery and are designed to automate complex engineering tasks across the semiconductor design lifecycle, from design implementation through verification…

The COM-HPC module targets physical AI applications in rugged environments. The post Congatec Launches Ryzen AI-based COM-HPC Module appeared first on Embedded .

Data center and fiber network solutions provider DC BLOX has obtained a new green Senior Secured Credit Facilities loan for $850 million, up from the original $265 million. The financing will support the company's development of hyperscale data centers throughout the southeastern U.S. The additional capital will also support existing and future projects, including those already pre-leased. “Our b…

Edgecore Networks unveiled its Praxis edge AI services platform for AI service providers at this year’s MWC. Praxis is built for managed service providers, Internet service providers and AI-driven SaaS and VaaS products. The platform supports its five hardware configurations through Synaptics Incorporated and Qualcomm Incorporated from 1 to 70 TOPS. "AI is moving to the edge, and the companies th…

Edge AI infrastructure solutions provider Armada announced a 500+ job deal with Johnson Controls to construct modular data centres at a new plant in Arizona. Armada raised $230M in an oversubscribed Series B round, valuing the company at $2B. The funds will expedite deployment of the U.S. AI stack while meeting growing demand from customers across various industries. "The AI race will not be won …

Structure Research , an independent digital infrastructure research and consulting firm published its 2026 State of Environmental Impact Report . The report tracks developments from 2020-2025 with metrics such as carbon emissions, energy consumption, renewable energy use, and water consumption from reported environmental data from 38 data center providers and nine hyperscale cloud platforms. In 2…

Blackstone and Google are forming a joint venture to create a new TPU cloud company. Google Cloud said it will provide data center capacity and operations, networking, and access to the Google Cloud Tensor Processing Units ( TPUs ). Alternative asset manager Blackstone plans to kickstart the new business with a $5 billion investment that will add 500 MW of capacity in 2027. “This joint venture wi…

Webinar: Rise of the Neocloud and Future of AI Infrastructure Thursday May 28, 2026 | 10am PT / 1pm ET Join Structure Research for an update, analysis and discussion about the emerging Neocloud infrastructure services market. We will trace the neocloud sector's short history and draw parallels with first generation cloud and the rise of hyperscale. This session features proprietary marketshare da…

Red Hat announced expanded capabilities for sovereign and private clouds, empowering organizations with greater data and technology control. New features include simplified compliance, production-ready landing zones, and rapid deployment of AI and cloud services. Building on-premises telemetry for data sovereignty and localized software delivery for regional resilience, Red Hat are rolling out a …

Iceotope , a provider of liquid cooling solutions, raised $26 million in a Series B funding round. Proceeds will be utilized to advance product development, broadening of the patent portfolio, and accelerate partnerships. The round, one of the largest ever for cooling technologies, was co-led by Two Seas Capital and Barclays Climate Ventures to reinforce interest in climate-smart solutions. "Secu…

IREN , a vertically integrated AI cloud provider has signed a five-year AI infrastructure cloud services contract with NVIDIA . The contract is valued at approximately $3.4 billion and IREN will provide NVIDIA with managed GPU cloud services for AI and research workloads, including orchestration and cluster management software in collaboration with Mirantis . The services will utilize air-cooled …

Sharon AI , an Australian neocloud company, announced a five-year cloud computing infrastructure agreement. The deal is worth approximately US$950 million with a global technology company that has significant Asia-Pacific presence. Sharon AI will achieve cloud solution deployment in Australia at NEXTDC data centers, returning revenue starting late 2026. “We are thrilled to continue to expand our …

Agentic RL research is constant algorithm modification, and in mainstream frameworks every change threads through trainer, distributed backend, and rollout glue. NVIDIA's Molt targets that cost with about 8.6K lines of RL code, composing Ray, vLLM, and NeMo AutoModel around one asynchronous loop. The agent stays ordinary Python, trajectories stay token-exact, and throughput comes out statisticall…

In this tutorial, we build an advanced end-to-end time-series forecasting workflow with TimesFM 2.5. We begin by configuring the runtime, installing the required dependencies, detecting available hardware, and generating a realistic multi-store retail dataset with trend, seasonality, pricing, promotions, holidays, temperature effects, and random variation. We then load and compile the TimesFM 2.5…

Despite a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to “nudify” images can move forward.

Green offered a remarkable apology, saying that "the level of dopamine that I've been getting from interacting with LLMs ... is not healthy for me or good for the world."

AMD released Instella-MoE-16B-A3B, a fully open Mixture-of-Experts language model trained from scratch on Instinct MI300X and MI325X GPUs. It holds 16B total parameters but activates only 2.8B per token, using Gated MLA and FarSkip-Collective. AMD published weights from every training stage, plus data mixtures, configs, and inference code. The post AMD Releases Instella-MoE-16B-A3B: A Fully Open …

Discover how to optimize transformer workloads using the NVIDIA Transformer Engine. This tutorial guides you through configuring fused GPU kernels, implementing FP8 delayed scaling, and benchmarking model performance. Learn to build and train efficient GPT-style causal language models in PyTorch with practical code examples and performance analysis. The post Accelerating Transformer Training with…

OpenAI's CEO seemed excited to share a "cool use case" for parents.

This $9 NFC key requires you to physically scan it to unlock distracting apps on your phone.

Supabase has open sourced supabase/evals, an Apache-2.0 benchmark and framework that runs coding agents including Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode against real Supabase tasks — building schemas, debugging Edge Functions, fixing RLS policies — inside containerized stacks, then scores them with deterministic checks and LLM-as-a-judge. The post Supabase Releases Evals: an Open Source Benchmark That S…

MiniMax releases MiniMax H3, a general-purpose multimodal generation model. MiniMax H3 is not a text-to-video model with add-ons. MiniMax describes it as a general-purpose multimodal generation model that reads text, images, video, and audio as one unified context and returns video with native stereo sound. The mains specs include: 2K output, 4–15 seconds, integer durations […] The post MiniMax R…

OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.

DeepSeek published DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 on Hugging Face and moved the official V4-Flash API into public beta on July 31, 2026. The model card is explicit that this is the official release superseding the preview, and that the architecture and size are unchanged. The gains come from re-post-training, not a new design. The checkpoint ships with the […] The post DeepSeek Upgrades DeepSeek-V4-Flash…

India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.

Discover how to implement a streaming 3D reconstruction pipeline using LingBot-Map. From GPU-aware configuration and preprocessing to GCTStream model inference and point cloud generation, this guide walks you through the steps to convert image or video sequences into consistent 3D scenes with exportable PLY and NPZ artifacts. The post LingBot-Map Tutorial: GPU-Aware Inference and Point Cloud Expo…

A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

Snapchat has adjusted its recommendation systems to ensure that only videos created by real people are eligible for Spotlight recommendations, taking a stance against AI slop.

Apple CEO Tim Cook envisions users being able to buy more compute for Siri AI via Apple's existing iCloud+ subscriptions.

SpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

The startup is building voice models designed to make AI phone calls pass the Turing test.

After years of pushing full speed ahead on AI, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says maybe it’s time for the AI industry to “pace” itself. The comments came just days after one of OpenAI’s own models broke out of its test environment and got tangled up in a breach at Hugging Face — though as Equity’s hosts point out, sloppy security seems to have […]

JetBrains Research has open-sourced KotlinLLM under the Apache License 2.0. The IntelliJ IDEA plugin prototype adds Smart macros, asLlm and mockLlm, whose bodies are generated Kotlin source rather than live model calls. The plugin captures runtime values through JDI, asks an LLM agent for a narrow code update, compiles it, and redefines the loaded class. Covered scenarios then run as plain Kotlin…

Nous Research has released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block's open source, self-hostable Nostr workspace where humans and AI agents share the same channels. Three integration paths cover Desktop runtime, relay bridge, and a native gateway platform that preserves Hermes memory, skills, approvals, and cron delivery. The post Nous Research Ships Three Integration Paths for Hermes Agent and Buzz,…

After OpenAI's models broke into Hugging Face, Anthropic checked its own history and found three similar incidents.

The former OpenAI researcher’s fund was forced to unwind public equities after leveraged public bets plummeted. But he still has cards to play.

Director of CSAIL and MIT professor honored for her contributions to robotics, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems.

MIT students and postdocs discussed science funding and research with policymakers in Washington during the MIT Science Policy Initiative’s annual Congressional Visit Days.

The visionary PhysioNet platform launched 25 years ago, based on a system developed at MIT in the 1970s. It has become one of the most comprehensive biomedical and clinical data repositories in existence.

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PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

Initial research projects advance national priorities across natural resources, manufacturing, nuclear physics, and more.

Known for his clear and elegant writing style, Bertsekas shaped fields from control and optimization to large-scale computation and artificial intelligence.

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Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.

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Researchers developed an automated framework that helps AI models generate CAD programs more accurately and efficiently.

Assistant Professor Pat Pataranutaporn describes a new interface that lets everyday users glimpse inside an AI's neural network before their chatbot ever says a word.

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

MIT students designed, built, and tested a jet engine with AI copilots, assessing AI’s usefulness in developing high-performance aerospace systems.

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Students from the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic help local governments and other vulnerable organizations defend against digital threats.

“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores.

Researchers developed an auditing technique to test generative AI models for malicious capabilities, without prompting them for illegal outputs.

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

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Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.

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Research in “Nature” shows our conversational AI system matches primary care physicians in complex disease management.

Google has announced a $1.5 billion investment for 2026 and 2027 to expand its data center campus in Jackson County, Alabama. Operating since 2019 on a repurposed former…