The controller is equipped with a stereo depth-sensing Intel RealSense camera and running an Ubuntu/ROS stack and has a quad-core Atom for a brain.

The module is designed for researchers, makers, and robotics developers, the device is a self-contained, candy-bar sized compute module ready to pop into a robot. It’s augmented with a WiFi hotspot, Bluetooth, GPS, and IR, proximity, motion, barometric pressure sensors. There’s also a snap-on battery.

Sarang Borude, an Interaction Designer on the Experience Design/Development Team of Intel’s Perceptual Computing unit, said that the device is preinstalled with Ubuntu 14.04 with Robot Operating System (ROS) Indigo.

It should be released in the first quarter of next year and will run Ubuntu 16.04 with the latest Kinetic.

Euclid can be used as a full, autonomous “brain” with sensing capabilities, or as a smart sensor controlled by a more powerful computer. You can offload vision processing onto Euclid or access raw data from the sensors. You can transfer Arduino sketches or ROS code to Euclid over the WiFi connection.

But the idea is to create a plug and element to the robot creation. Euclid module’s USB 3.0 and micro-HDMI ports and a battery pack interface
Other than that Euclid was demoed as a preliminary proof of concept without detailed specs or a price.