Meta Muse Gadgets: Build Your Own AI Agent Device on ESP32
Meta has open-sourced ESP32 firmware and a Linux SDK so makers can connect their own hardware to its Muse AI agent. Here is how the architecture works, which boards are…
EmbeddingGemma 2: Offline Multimodal Search for Edge Boards
Google's EmbeddingGemma 2 maps text, code, images, video and audio into one vector space in 740M parameters. Here is what it means for embedded Linux boards, how on-device RAG works,…
Alif Semiconductor Acquisition: What ADI’s $1.35B Deal Means
Analog Devices is buying Alif Semiconductor for $1.35 billion, adding Ensemble and Balletto AI microcontrollers with Arm Ethos NPUs. Here's what the deal signals for edge-AI MCUs and the skills…
Arduino VENTUNO Q: Physical AI Robot Arms Running SmolVLA Locally
A $299 Arduino VENTUNO Q ran Hugging Face's SmolVLA locally to drive an SO-101 robot arm. Here's how the dual-brain board and vision-language-action models work, and how it compares with…
openTPU FPGA: An AI-Designed Accelerator That Runs Real LLMs
openTPU, an Apache-2.0 LLM accelerator built largely by AI agents, runs Qwen3.5, Gemma 4 and a 35B MoE on a Kintex-7 FPGA card. Here is how it works and what…
LLM on a Microcontroller: How Generative AI Fits in 512 KB SRAM
A 28.9M-parameter LLM now runs on an ESP32-S3 and a diffusion model draws faces on a $1 RP2350. Here is how memory tiering, quantization and DMA streaming make it work,…
From Sci-Fi to Reality: Bringing AI-powered Object Detection to Self-Driving Cars
From Sci-Fi to Reality: Bringing AI-powered Object Detection to Self-Driving Cars Once relegated to futuristic films and novels, self-driving cars are rapidly transitioning from fantasy to reality. One crucial technology…
AI Robots Pushing the Boundaries of Interaction and Capability
AI-powered robots are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with the ability to interact with their environment and perform tasks in ways that were once thought impossible. Some of the latest research in…