2026 AI Innovation Awards
For end products
The AI Innovation Award honors innovative and impactful end products that incorporate edge AI and vision technologies.
These awards are open to end products—meaning products that are ready for consumer or enterprise use upon delivery and are not components of other products. Examples include smart home appliances, medical diagnostic equipment, and retail analytics solutions. Previous winners have included AI-enabled smart glasses for consumers, humanoid robots, smart agricultural equipment, drones, and augmented reality headsets for enterprises.
Winning companies gain recognition for their leadership and innovation, along with year-round promotion by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance.
Nominations are free and open to the public. They are evaluated by a panel of independent industry experts. Simply use the online nomination form to provide basic information; filling out the form takes less than a minute.
This year, we are inviting nominations for end products that utilize large multimodal models (LMMs). These advanced deep learning algorithms can process, understand, and generate content across various data types, including text, images, audio, and/or video. LMMs enable applications that were previously challenging or impossible to achieve with language-only or image-only models.
Benefits of winning
Validation of your product leadership and innovation
- Judging by a panel of independent industry experts
Gain competitive advantage
- Attract new customers and partners as your product is independently rated as one of the best products of the year!
Increased visibility
- Year-round promotion by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance
- Alliance website, social media posts, presentations and newsletters with global distribution
Eligibility
- Must be an end product i.e., a product that, as delivered, is ready to be used by consumers or enterprises, and is not a component of another product
- Product must be delivered and available to end-users in 2025
- Product must implement AI or vision algorithms at the edge (on the device, on-premise, or at the network edge)
- The nominated company must be the primary developer of the end product
2026 AI Innovation Awards at a Glance
- The Award recognizes the innovation and achievement of end products that use edge AI or vision technologies
- Examples include smart home appliances, medical diagnostic equipment, retail analytics solutions, etc.
- Nominations are free and open to the public
- Deadline for nominations: December 31, 2025
- Nominated products are evaluated by a panel of independent industry experts
- Winning products will be announced in April 2026
- Awards ceremony at the 2026 Embedded Vision Summit, May 11-13, 2026
FAQs
Anyone can nominate an awesome new product deserving to win an AI Innovation Award. The product can be from your own company or any company that has recently introduced a product that uses edge AI or vision technologies and has impressed you with it’s innovation.
To nominate a product, use our online form to provide basic information about the product including product name and website, company name and website and product category. To maximize your score, you can provide relevant links (up to 4) for additional information to support your nomination—such as demos, media coverage, technical descriptions etc.
For end products, it’s free! The AI Innovation Awards are sponsored by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance, and our mission is to inspire and empower innovators to build products that perceive and understand. Showcasing great products via awards is one of the many ways we do this!
December 31, 2025
“End products” are products that, as delivered, are ready to be used by consumers or enterprises, and are not components of other products. Examples include smart home appliances, medical diagnostic equipment, retail analytics solutions, etc.
- Products must be launched and available to end-users in 2025
- End product must support processing of AI and/or vision algorithms locally, whether on a chip, device or on-premise. We include hybrid approaches where some processing happens locally and some in the cloud. Products where all AI is implemented in the cloud are not eligible
- The nominated company must be the primary developer of the product being nominated
AI Innovation Award winners are selected by an independent panel of judges
- Winning products will be announced in April 2026
- Awards ceremony at the 2026 Embedded Vision Summit, May 11-13, 2026
If your product is selected as a winner, to help you promote your Award, we give you permission, without compensation, to use the Edge AI and Vision AI Innovation Award logo in your marketing materials and online for the winning product.
Just send an email to [email protected]. We look forward to seeing your submission!
What is Edge AI and Vision?
“Edge AI and vision” refers to the practical use of artificial intelligence and computer vision in machines that perceive and understand their environment through visual and other means.Â
By “edge AI,” we mean AI processing that occurs locally, whether on a chip, device or on-premise. We include hybrid approaches where some processing happens locally and some in the cloud. And we include edge devices that process all sorts of sensor data: images, audio, vibration, radar, lidar and the like. Examples of edge AI systems include a warehouse robot using cameras and lidar, a smart speaker with local wake word processing, an on-premise video recorder with object detection and tracking, and a radar-based hospital patient monitor that uses AI to detect breathing, movement and sleep.Â
By “computer vision” we mean the use of algorithms and AI to extract meaning from images or video. Examples include motion and object tracking, defect detection (e.g., on an assembly line), pedestrian detection for automobiles, and location recognition and mapping from visual inputs.
