2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards Winners
Congratulations to ENERZAi, Expedera, Intel, Nota AI, SiMa.ai, Synaptics, and Visionary.ai
The Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards celebrate the innovation and achievement of the industry’s leading companies that are enabling and developing products incorporating edge AI and computer vision technologies.
The award winners were announced on April 20, 2026, and an awards ceremony will take place during the 2026 Embedded Vision Summit, May 11-13.
Special Recognition
Although there can only be one award winner in each category, the judges wanted to recognize an outstanding submission that received the second-highest rating. We are pleased to announce that Texas Instruments has received an Honorable Mention for the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Cameras and Sensors category for their AWRL6844 automotive radar sensor.
2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Visionary.ai (Camera or Sensor)
Visionary.AI’s AI ISP has been awarded the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Cameras and Sensors category. The Visionary.ai ISP is the world’s first fully end-to-end ISP pipeline. The AI ISP is designed to run at the edge, on NPU, making it flexible, chip-area-efficient, and software-defined. This
2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Synaptics (Edge AI Development Platform)
Synaptics’s Astra™ Machina SL2610 Development Kit has been awarded the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Development Platforms category. The Synaptics Astra™ Machina SL2600 Series Development Kit enables advanced Edge AI and visual intelligence by bringing multimodal, transformer-class inference directly onto embedded IoT hardware. The open and
2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: SiMa.ai (Edge AI Computer or Board)
SiMa.ai’s Modalix MLSoC SoM has been awarded the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Computers and Boards category. SiMa.ai’s Modalix SoM (System on Module) is a compact, production-ready circuit board designed to run advanced AI directly on edge devices. Modalix SoMs are ideal for companies building physical
2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Nota AI (Edge AI Large Multimodal Model)
Nota AI’s Nota Vision Agent has been awarded the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Large Multimodal Models category. NVA (Nota Vision Agent) is Nota AI’s flagship generative AI video monitoring solution that transforms traditional video feeds into intelligent, conversational insights. Unlike conventional computer vision (CV)-based object
2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Intel (Edge AI Processor)
Intel’s Core™ Ultra Series 2 processors have been awarded the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year in the Edge AI Processors category. The Intel® Core™ Ultra processor (Series 2)—codenamed Arrow Lake-H—delivers a major leap in AI, graphics, and system flexibility compared with Series 1 (Meteor Lake-H). It integrates up to 16 cores,
2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award Winner Showcase: Expedera (Edge AI Processor IP)
Expedera’s Origin Evolution NPU IP has been awarded the 2026 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Award in the Edge AI Processors IP category. Origin Evolution is a unique IP, specifically designed for the evolving needs of LLMs and VLMs at the edge while maintaining full compatibility with popular legacy networks like CNNs
Panel of Judges – 2026 Edge AI and Vision Awards
José Roberto Alvarez
Venture Partner
Innovative Growth Capital
Torsten Fink
Sr. Director, New Business Creation
Dolby Laboratories, Inc.
Nik Gagvani, Ph.D.
Founder and President
CheckVideo
Vaibhav Ghadiok
Co-Founder and CTO
Hayden AI
Nathan Kopp
Chamberlain Group
Toly Kotlarsky
Distinguished MTS, R&D
Zebra Technologies Corp.
Pavan Kumar
Senior Product Manager
Google Labs
Jason Lavene
Technical Director
Keurig Dr Pepper
