Qualcomm has unveiled the Arduino Ventuno Q, a new AI-focused single-board computer designed for robotics applications, aiming to make advanced robotics and edge AI accessible to developers.
The development marks a significant expansion of Qualcomm’s hardware portfolio following its acquisition of Arduino last year. The board targets developers building offline AI systems for smart kiosks, healthcare assistants, and traffic flow analysis. The company stated that the platform enables machines to perceive, decide, and act on a single board.
The Ventuno Q is powered by Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ8 processor alongside a dedicated STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller. The Dragonwing IQ8 features an 8-core ARM Cortex CPU, Adreno Arm Cortex A623 GPU, and Hexagon Tensor NPU capable of up to 40 TOPs. The board includes 16GB of LPDDR5 RAM, 64GB of eMMC storage, and an M.2 NVMe Gen.4 expansion slot. Connectivity options comprise Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps Ethernet, and USB camera support.
The Ventuno Q comes with Arduino App Lab, which includes pre-trained AI models that run offline. These models include LLMs, VLMs, ASR, gesture recognition, pose estimation, and object tracking. The system supports a full robotics stack with vision processing and deterministic motor control for precise manipulation. It is positioned for education and research in computer vision, generative AI, and edge prototyping.
Qualcomm stated that the platform enables building machines that perceive, decide, and act on a single board. The company wrote that its goal is to make advanced robotics and edge AI accessible to every developer, educator, and innovator. The Arduino Ventuno Q is expected to be available in Q2 2026 from the Arduino Store and other retailers, with a price tag under $300.
