Qualcomm launches a complete suite of robotic technology solutions to support embodied intelligence from household robots to full-sized humanoid robots
Qualcomm has launched a complete general-purpose robotics full-stack architecture based on a high-performance SoC platform with high security, integrating hardware, software, and AI capabilities. This architecture is industry-leading in energy efficiency and scalability, supporting everything from personal service robots and next-generation autonomous mobile robots (AMR) to full-sized humanoid robots with reasoning, adaptation, and decision-making capabilities. The new end-to-end architecture accelerates automation in industries such as retail, logistics, and manufacturing by empowering versatile, continuously learning robotic forms. As the core of this architecture, Qualcomm simultaneously introduced the Dragonwing™ IQ10 series, which is its latest flagship robot processor aimed at humanoid robots and advanced autonomous mobile robots
On Monday, Qualcomm unveiled a new generation of "full-stack" architecture for robots at the CES in Las Vegas, integrating hardware, software, and composite AI, aimed at powering various forms ranging from small household robots to full-sized humanoid robots.
At the same time, Qualcomm also released its latest high-performance robotic processor — Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ10 series, targeting industrial autonomous mobile robots (AMR) and advanced full-sized humanoid robots.
This is the company's latest generation of processors designed specifically for robots, further expanding its existing robotic product roadmap, providing high-performance, low-power "robot brains" capabilities. Qualcomm stated that leveraging the company's mature experience in edge AI and high-performance low-power systems, this innovation can transform prototype products into deployable intelligent machines.
In response, Nakul Duggal, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Qualcomm's Automotive, Industrial, Embedded IoT, and Robotics Business, stated:
"As pioneers of high-efficiency, high-performance physical AI systems, we understand what it takes to ensure the most complex robotic systems operate reliably and safely at scale. By building on our low-latency, safety-compliant high-performance technology foundation — covering the complete chain from perception, cognition to planning and execution — we are redefining the possibilities of physical AI, bringing intelligent machines from the laboratory into real-world applications."
Qualcomm stated that the company is collaborating with several enterprises within its robotics platform ecosystem, including Advantech, APLUX, AutoCore, Booster, Figure, Kuka Robotics, Robotec.ai, etc., aiming to achieve large-scale deployment-ready robotic applications.
Among them, as Figure expands its humanoid robot platform, Qualcomm Technologies is working with it to jointly define the next generation of computing architecture. Brett Adcock, Founder and CEO of Figure, stated:
"Figure's mission is to develop advanced AI-driven general-purpose humanoid robots to eliminate dangerous and undesirable jobs, enhance productivity across industries, and create economic prosperity, allowing humans to lead happier and more purposeful lives. Qualcomm's platform achieves an excellent balance between powerful computing capabilities and outstanding energy efficiency, serving as a crucial cornerstone in helping Figure realize this vision."
Built on a Mature Foundation: From Concept to Deployment
Qualcomm stated that this general-purpose robotic architecture leverages the company's expertise in energy efficiency, scalability, and edge AI performance, ushering in a new era of autonomous robots and interconnected intelligence Currently, the Dragonwing industrial processor roadmap has provided support for various types of general-purpose robots, including industry-leading humanoid robots from global robotics manufacturers such as Booster and VinMotion. This architecture supports advanced perception capabilities and motion planning that integrates end-to-end AI models (such as VLA and VLM), achieving generalized operational capabilities and human-machine interaction abilities.
Among them, Qualcomm has partnered with the Vietnamese robotics company Vinmotion to launch the Motion 2 robot—a general-purpose humanoid robot. A video released by Vinmotion on YouTube last week showcased some of the robot's capabilities: it can punch through a wooden board, squat down to pick up a small teddy bear from the ground, and bend its back in a way that most people over 30 can only "imagine."
The company stated that the launch of Dragonwing IQ10 has helped Qualcomm take an important step toward large-scale deployment in the real world for industrial applications. Meanwhile, Qualcomm is also in discussions with Kuka Robotics regarding its next-generation robotic solutions.
Full-Stack Architecture
According to Qualcomm, the general-purpose robot architecture equipped with Dragonwing IQ10 redefines the possibilities of robotics technology by combining powerful heterogeneous edge computing, edge AI, hybrid critical systems, software, machine learning operations, and AI data flywheels.
The company stated that this system is supported by an ever-growing ecosystem of partners and is complemented by a comprehensive developer tool suite. The end-to-end overall solution enables robots to perform intelligent reasoning and adaptation to spatial and temporal environments, achieving scalable expansion under industrial-grade reliability for various forms. This collaborative network accelerates the development of deployable robotic solutions, addressing the "last mile" challenge and driving faster and more scalable innovation across industries
