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NXP Tech Days Comes to Silicon Valley

NXP Semiconductors will host “NXP Tech Days,” on August 18, 2026, from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm PDT in Santa Clara, California. The event will feature hands-on workshops, expert-led sessions, and real-world insights across embedded systems, edge AI, connectivity, and security. From the event page: The Future, Engineered During the general session, discover how NXP […]

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Mistral’s 8B Robostral Navigate Steers Robots Using a Single RGB Camera

Mistral AI has introduced Robostral Navigate, an 8-billion-parameter embodied navigation model designed to move robots through unfamiliar environments using natural-language instructions and images from a single RGB camera. Unlike many vision-language navigation systems, it does not require LiDAR, depth sensing or a panoramic multi-camera rig. On the R2R-CE validation-unseen benchmark, Mistral reports a 76.6% success

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NVIDIA Introduces New Jetson Thor Computers to Advance Mainstream Robotics and Edge AI

New NVIDIA Blackwell-powered T3000 and T2000 modules, paired with new NVIDIA Jetson software memory optimization and agent skills, help partners and customers move advanced robotics, visual AI and edge workloads onto compact, power-efficient systems.   This news blog post was originally published at NVIDIA’s website. It is reprinted here with the permission of NVIDIA. General-purpose

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Free Webinar on Building Trustworthy Physical AI at the Edge

On September 2, 2026 at 9 am PT (noon ET), Muneyb Minhazuddin, Customer Growth Officer at Ambarella and Pietro Antonio Cicalese, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer at Ambarella, will present the free hour webinar “See, Think, Act, Learn: Building Trustworthy Physical AI at the Edge,” organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Here’s the description, from

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VeriSilicon Introduces CPP2000 Camera Post-Processing IP for Embodied Robotics and Mobile Vision Applications

Shanghai, China, July 3, 2026–VeriSilicon (688521.SH) today announced its high-performance CPP2000 Camera Post-Processing (CPP) IP, expanding the company’s Image Signal Processing (ISP) solutions with advanced post-processing capabilities. By improving image quality and visual perception in mobile imaging scenarios, CPP2000 enables more reliable vision performance in robotics, drones, and other mobile vision applications. CPP2000 integrates multiple

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Microchip Advances Neural Network Implementation with VectorBlox 3.0 Accelerator SDK

Latest release leverages sparse neural networks to improve performance and enable more efficient edge AI on PolarFire® FPGAs and SoCs CHANDLER, Ariz., July 14, 2026 — Deploying AI inference in power‑constrained and mission‑critical environments such as aerospace and defense systems requires solutions that balance performance, efficiency, reliability and ease of development. To better manage these challenges,

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Microchip Expands Developer Access with Free MPLAB® XC Compilers and MPLAB Machine Learning Development Suite

CHANDLER, Ariz., July 8, 2026 — Microchip Technology (Nasdaq: MCHP) has announced that its MPLAB® XC Pro Compilers and MPLAB Machine Learning (ML) Development Suite are now available at no cost to customers. By enabling unlimited installs across individual and team environments, these tools give developers free access to advanced optimization capabilities and integrated embedded machine learning workflows. “Our focus is on optimizing

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Ebttikar and MemryX Form Strategic Partnership to Accelerate Computer Vision Edge AI Across Saudi Arabia

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, July 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Ebttikar Technology Company, a Saudi technology solutions provider and systems integrator, and MemryX Inc., a developer of edge AI inference accelerator chips, today announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the commercial deployment of production-ready Computer Vision Edge AI solutions across Saudi Arabia, with potential expansion to qualified opportunities in

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Free Webinar on Designing Computer Vision for the Far Edge

On September 24, 2026 at 9 am PT (noon ET), Nicolas Widynski, AI Fellow at Lattice Semiconductor, will present the free hour webinar “Efficient Computer Vision at the Far Edge: Design and Training Under Constraints,” organized by the Edge AI and Vision Alliance. Here’s the description, from the event registration page: This session explores practical

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Upcoming Webinar on Agentic Smart City Systems

On July 29, 2026 at 10:00 am PT (1:00 pm ET), Intel will present the webinar “Agentic Smart City Systems: Real-Time Traffic Orchestration.” Here’s the description, from the event registration page: Beat congestion, save time, and route smarter in this hands-on, gamified workshop where Agentic AI meets Edge AI to power next-generation smart cities and

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