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August 2, 2025August 16, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

NV8600-Nano AI developer kit Review – Part 1: NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB devkit unboxing and first boot

AAEON has sent me an NV8600-Nano AI developer kit equipped with an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano 8GB for review. I’ll start the review with an unboxing to check out the board itself and accessories, before booting it to the preinstalled Ubuntu 22.04 OS (JetPack 6.2). In the second part of the review, I’ll test the board and software in more detail, including some benchmarks and features testing with a focus on AI demos using the provided USB and Raspberry Pi cameras. NV8600-Nano AI developer kit Unboxing I received two packages: one for the NV8600-Nano AI developer kit itself, and a smaller one for a “Full HD Machine USB 2.0 camera”. The exact part number can be found on a sticker: NV8600-KIT-JP620N-A1-1010. It also lists basic information like Orin Nano 8GB, four Ethernet ports, six USB 3.0 ports, two MIPI connectors, a 40-pin GPIO header, CAN Bus and COM ports, and […]

July 30, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 4 Comments

$5,900 Unitree R1 is an ultra-lightweight, customizable humanoid robot

The Unitree R1 is a cost-effective, ultra-lightweight, and customizable humanoid robot that stands 1.21m tall and weighs approximately 25kg in its default configuration. The company says pricing starts at $5,900, which is considerably cheaper than the company’s G1 humanoid robot or Elephant Robotics’ Mercuxy X1 wheeled humanoid robot, both of which go for about $16,000 and up. Some cost-cutting measures had to be taken for the lower price, including a slightly shorter design and missing features like working hands… Let’s check out the specifications for more details. Unitree R1 specifications: Computing 8-core CPU Optional “high-power computing module” for EDU version only: NVIDIA Jetson Orin with 40 to 100 TOPS of AI processing power Audio 4-Mic Array Build-in Speaker Camera – Humanoid binocular cameras Wireless – WiFi & Bluetooth 5.2 Degree of Freedom (Total Joints) – 26 Single Leg Degrees of Freedom – 6 Single Arm Degrees of Freedom – 5 […]

July 18, 2025July 23, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 65 Comments

Rockchip unveils RK3668 10-core Arm Cortex-A730/Cortex-A530 SoC with 16 TOPS NPU, RK182X LLM/VLM co-processor

The Rockchip Developer Conference 2025 (RKDC!2025) is now taking place in Fuzhou, China, with some interesting announcements such as the Rockchip RK3668 10-core Arm Cortex-A730/A530 processor with a 16 TOPS NPU and the RK182X RISC-V co-processor with support for up to 7B parameters LLM (large Language Model)or VLM (Vision Language Model). Rochchip RK3668 10-core Armv9 SoC Let’s have a look at the Rockchip RK3668 SoC, which looks quite similar to the RK3688 SoC unveiled last year, but with some differences. Preliminary Rockchip RK3668 specifications: CPU – 4x Cortex-A730 + 6x Cortex-A530 Armv9.3 cores delivering around 200K DMIPS; note: neither core has been announced by Arm yet GPU – Arm Magni GPU delivering up to 1-1.5 TFLOPS of performance AI accelerator – 16 TOPS RKNN-P3 NPU VPU – 8K 60 FPS video decoder ISP – AI-enhanced ISP supporting up to 8K @ 30 FPS Memory – LPDDR5/5x/6 up to 100 GB/s […]

July 15, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

AMobile SoM-SD520/SoM-SD720 SoM targets Edge and Generative AI with MediaTek Genio 520/720 SoC

Mediatek Genio 520 and 720 carrier board and development kit

Taiwanese company AMobile Solutions has launched the SoM-SD520 and SoM-SD720 system-on-modules, powered by MediaTek Genio 520 & Genio 720 SoCs, respectively, and designed for Edge AI and Generative AI applications with up to 10 TOPS of AI computing performance. The modules ship with up to 16GB LPDDR5, 128GB UFS3.1 storage, and an optional WiFI 6 and Bluetooth 5.2 wireless module. It’s mainly suitable for smart surveillance, industrial automation, smart retail terminals/self-service kiosks, smart healthcare, and other applications benefiting from Edge or Generative AI on-device. SoM-SD520 and SoM-SD720 specifications: SoC (one or the other) MediaTek Genio 520 CPU – 2x Cortex-A78 up to 2.2GHz, 6x Cortex-A55 up to 2.0 GHz GPU – Arm Mali-G57 MC2 up to 880 MHz VPU Video Decode – Up to 1920 x 1200 @ 60fps Video Encode – Up to 1920 x 1200 @ 60fps ISP – 1x ISP NPU – NPU850 AI accelerator up to 9 […]

June 6, 2025June 7, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

Raspberry Pi 5-based portable AI learning platform features 41 modules, supports Arduino Nano, RPi Pico, and Micro:bit boards (Crowdfunding)

CrowPi 3 is a Raspberry Pi 5-powered all-in-one portable AI learning and development platform with a 4.3-inch touchscreen display, plenty of plug-and-play electronic modules, a breadboard area, and support for Arduino Nano, Raspberry Pi Pico, and BBC Micro:bit MCU boards for expansion. It’s basically another take on the CrowPi 2 laptop based on the Raspberry Pi 4 with similar modules placed under the keyboard, but in a different form factor. The CrowPi 3 portable learning platform replaces the 11.6-inch Full HD display with a 4.3-inch display and does away with the keyboard, but is equipped with a more powerful Raspberry Pi 5 SBC capable of handling real-time AI tools such as ChatGPT and LLaMA (with smaller, distilled models). CrowPi 3 specifications: Main Board – Raspberry Pi 5 SBC Compatible MCU boards Arduino Nano boards BBC Micro:bit boards Raspberry Pi Pico boards Display – 4.3-inch IPS touchscreen display with 800×480 resolution […]

May 2, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 1 Comment

SO-ARM101 open-source dual robotic arm kit works with Hugging Face’s LeRobot

SO-ARM101 robotic arm with hugging face support

SO-ARM101 “Arm Servo Motor Kit” is an open-source dual robotic arm kit that works with Hugging Face’s LeRobot robotics framework and is designed to interface with NVIDIA Jetson AI modules and computers. It is an update to the SO-ARM100 DIY open-source robotic arm kit introduced last year with LeRobot framework support. The new SO-ARM101 is still comprised of leader and follower arms but features improved wiring to prevent disconnection issues previously seen at joint 3, motors with optimized gear ratios, and a few functionality where the leader arm can now follow the follower arm in real-time, which will be used for reinforcement learning (RL) where a human can intervene and correct the robot’s actions. SO-ARM101 specifications: Degrees of Freedom (DOF) – 6 per Arm Motor control Total servo – 12x STS3215 bus servos (6x for each Arm) Leader Arm 1x (7.4V) 1:345 gear ratio motor for No.2 joints 2x (7.4V) […]

March 19, 2025March 21, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 13 Comments

NVIDIA DGX Spark – A desktop AI supercomputer powered by NVIDIA GB10 20-core Armv9 SoC with 1,000 TOPS of AI performance

NVIDIA DGX Spark desktop AI supercomputer

NVIDIA DGX Spark may look like a mini PC, but under the hood, it’s a powerful AI supercomputer based on the NVIDIA GB10 20-core Armv9 SoC with Blackwell architecture delivering up to 1,000 TOPS (FP4) of AI performance, and high memory bandwidth (273 GB/s) with 128 GB 256-bit LPDDR5x. The GB10 SoC is equipped with ten Cortex-X925 cores, ten Cortex-X725 cores, a Blackwell GPU, 5th Gen Tensor cores, and 4th Gen RT cores. The system also features a 1 TB or 4TB SSD, an HDMI 2.1a video output port, 10GbE and WiFi 7 networking, and four USB4 ports. NVIDIA DGX Spark specifications: SoC – NVIDIA GB10 CPU – 20-core Armv9 processor with 10x Cortex-X925 cores and 10x Cortex-A725 cores Architecture – NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GPU – Blackwell Architecture CUDA Cores – Blackwell Generation 5th Gen Tensor cores 4th Gen RT (Ray Tracing) cores Tensor Performance – 1000 AI TOPS (FP4) […]

March 19, 2025 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

MediaTek Genio 720 and 520 AIoT SoCs target generative AI applications with 10 TOPS AI accelerator

The announcement of the MediaTek Genio 720 and Genio 520 octa-core Cortex-A78/A55 AIoT SoCs is one of the news I missed at Embedded World 2025. The new models appear to be updates to the Genio 700 and Genio 500 with a beefier NPU, and the Taiwanese company says the new Genio series supports generative AI models, human-machine interface (HMI), multimedia, and connectivity features for smart home, retail, industrial, and commercial IoT devices. Both are equipped with a 10 TOPS NPU/AI accelerator for transformer and convolutional neural network (CNN) models and support up to 16GB of LPDDR5 memory to handle “edge-optimized” (i.e. quantized) large language models (LLMs) such as Llama, Gemini, Phi, and DeepSeek, and other generative AI tasks. MediaTek Genio 720 and Genio 520 specifications: Octa-core CPU Genio 520 2x Arm Cortex-A78 up to 2.2 GHz (Commercial) or 2.0 GHz (Industrial) 6x Arm Cortex-A55 up to 2.0 GHz (Commercial) or […]