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A Hexagon NPU Learns New AI Tricks While Edge Robots Get Lighter World Models
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A Hexagon NPU Learns New AI Tricks While Edge Robots Get Lighter World Models

llama.cpp opens a path to Qualcomm's Hexagon NPU, a 2-bit automation model surges on GitHub, and a lighter world model targets robot arms.

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Small AI Models Steer Robots While ESP32 Boards Do the Grunt Work
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Small AI Models Steer Robots While ESP32 Boards Do the Grunt Work

A dual-core Arduino runs robot policies on-device, a paper argues for skill-sized models over one big brain, and two ESP32 boards ship.

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A 4B AI Model Learns to Run a Robot Arm Entirely on Jetson Thor
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A 4B AI Model Learns to Run a Robot Arm Entirely on Jetson Thor

NVIDIA's Cosmos 3 Edge drives a robot arm on-device, a $5-class chip gets a voice it hasn't spoken yet, and two new boards widen the SBC lineup.

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Split-Brain Robots: Jetson Handles the Vision, a $49 MCU Kit Handles the Milliseconds — Edge AI Keeps Dividing the Job
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Split-Brain Robots: Jetson Handles the Vision, a $49 MCU Kit Handles the Milliseconds — Edge AI Keeps Dividing the Job

A student-built quadruped, a walking-robot policy on a Rockchip SBC, a tiny STM32N6 vision camera, and a $49 TinyML kit all landed this week.

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A $1 Microcontroller Learns to Dream Faces as On-Device AI Keeps Shrinking
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A $1 Microcontroller Learns to Dream Faces as On-Device AI Keeps Shrinking

An RP2350 chip runs a diffusion model, an ESP32-S3 speaks Japanese, and researchers tackle mobile power and tiny-drone control at the edge.

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A 90-Million-Parameter LLM Talks From a 2004 PSP, While On-Device AI Keeps Finding Smaller Homes
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A 90-Million-Parameter LLM Talks From a 2004 PSP, While On-Device AI Keeps Finding Smaller Homes

A modded Sony PSP runs a tiny LLM, a $3 chip learns to speak, and a 2B open model claims agentic skills for phones.

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A Duck Robot Runs Its Balance Loop On-Chip as Local AI Quantization Claims Get Audited
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A Duck Robot Runs Its Balance Loop On-Chip as Local AI Quantization Claims Get Audited

A Rockchip-powered duck robot, two offline Raspberry Pi builds, and audits exposing quantization's blind spots and mislabeled GGUF files.

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Edge Dispatch: Edge Dispatch: NVIDIA Squeezes a 4B World Model Onto the Robot Itself as Liquid AI and AMD Chase the Same Edge
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Edge Dispatch: Edge Dispatch: NVIDIA Squeezes a 4B World Model Onto the Robot Itself as Liquid AI and AMD Chase the Same Edge

A Jetson Thor robot policy, a GGUF port for VLA models, a 2.6B tool-calling LLM, and a new AMD robotics module — all inference, no data center.

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