Qualcomm is bolting AI onto robotics, and it wants developers to stop relying on the cloud.
Qualcomm, which bought microcontroller board maker Arduino in 2025, has unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, a single-board computer designed for machines that move.
On its product page, the company wrote: “Ventuno Q is engineered specifically for systems that move, manipulate and respond to the physical world with precision and reliability.”
The board pairs Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ8 processor with a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller for tighter real-time control.
Arduino’s usual boards do not chase this kind of spec sheet, but Ventuno Q turns up with 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM and 64GB of eMMC storage.
It supports expansion via an M.2 NVMe Gen 4 slot, plus Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps ethernet and USB camera support.
Qualcomm says the Dragonwing IQ8 packs an eight-core Arm Cortex CPU, an Adreno GPU and a Hexagon Tensor NPU rated up to 40 TOPs.
Ventuno Q ships with Arduino App Lab and pre-trained AI models, including LLMs, VLMs, ASR, gesture recognition, pose estimation and object tracking, all running offline.
Arduino is targeting offline systems such as smart kiosks, healthcare assistants, and traffic flow analysis, as well as edge AI vision and sensing jobs.
It is meant to run a full robotics stack where vision processing sits alongside deterministic motor control, so machines can see and move without laggy guesswork.
Qualcomm wrote: “With Ventuno Q, AI can finally move from the cloud into the physical world. This platform enables building machines that perceive, decide, and act — all on a single board. Our goal is to make advanced robotics and edge AI accessible to every developer, educator, and innovator.”
Arduino Ventuno Q is due in Q2 2026 via the Arduino Store and other channels, with a price expected to be under $300.
