Dual-Brain Arduino Ventuno Q Debuts With Qualcomm Dragonwing For AI Robotics

Five months after acquiring Arduino, the open-source hardware and software company best known for its UNO and Nano microcontroller board for hobbyists, Qualcomm is looking to make another big splash with its new Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board, dual-brain computer built specifically for AI, robotics, and actuation.

The Ventuno Q is built on Qualcomm's Dragonwing platform, combining the muscle of the company's Dragonwing IQ8 series processor sporting an onboard NPU capable of up to 40 TOPS, with an STM32HS microcontroller dedicated to low-latency actuation and precise motor controls.

It also includes 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM for concurrent inference and complex multitasking, and 64GB of eMMC storage that is expandable by way of an M.2 NVMe Gen4 slot. From Qualcomm's vantage point, these specs enable high‑performance AI compute with deterministic real‑time control, paving the way for robotic systems that both understand and intelligently react to ...