Qualcomm Dragonwing To Power Next-Gen Autonomous Warehouses and Smart Kiosks

Today at CES, Qualcomm signaled its dominance in the burgeoning world of Physical AI by unveiling a massive expansion of its industrial and robotics portfolios. This expansion ought to put the company in position to be a comprehensive provider of edge computing technology for everything from tiny smart cameras to full-size humanoid robots.

Central to this transformation is the completion of five strategic acquisitions over the last 18 months: Augentix, Arduino, Edge Impulse, Focus.AI, and Foundries.io. By integrating them together, Qualcomm has created a unified ecosystem that bridges the gap between independent developers and global enterprises. The acquisition of Augentix, in particular, bolsters Qualcomm’s ability to deliver high-resolution, low-power vision systems for the mass market. To further support this hardware, the company introduced the Qualcomm Insight Platform, an AI-powered video intelligence service that uses large language models (LLMs) to turn raw video feeds into actionable data in ...