Edge AI & On-Device
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Era Computer (Era OS + Developer Kit) lands $11M to be the Android of AI gadgets
Liz Dorman saw Humane sell to HP for $116M. Now she’s shipping picks and shovels instead of the next Pin. A platform, not a gadget Era doesn’t make a gadget — it ships Era OS, an SDK, and a reference dev board for prototyping AI glasses, jewelry, home speakers. Think Android, except the OEMs are… Continue reading
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Lenovo ThinkEdge SE60n Gen 2 + SE30n Gen 2 push 97 TOPS into a fanless industrial box
Lenovo announced these two edge-AI computers in February and they actually start shipping April 2026. The bigger one, SE60n Gen 2, runs an Intel Core Ultra 7 265H with an integrated NPU, hitting up to 97 TOPS — enough to run multi-camera vision, predictive maintenance models, or VLA control loops for autonomous robots without a… Continue reading
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Title: DJI Osmo Pocket 4 ships with a 1-inch sensor and an SDK agents can call
DJI announced Osmo Pocket 4 on April 16, shipping started April 22. Same palm-sized 3-axis gimbal camera you hold like a pen. Everything inside got upgraded. The hardware jump 1-inch CMOS, f/2.0, 14 stops of dynamic range, 10-bit D-Log, 4K up to 240fps, 2x lossless zoom. Rotating screen, 5D joystick, dedicated zoom and preset buttons,… Continue reading
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Cognex In-Sight 6900 Vision Controller pushes 157 TOPS to the factory line
Cognex shipped the In-Sight 6900 on April 28 — an industrial edge AI vision controller that sits next to a production line, runs AI models on incoming camera frames, and skips the PC entirely. 157 TOPS at the edge Inside is an NVIDIA Jetson Thor-class module hitting 157 TOPS. Enough to run several high-resolution models… Continue reading
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Flipdiscs: 84×42 flip-dot wall with a REST API for AI agents
Hacker News front page today — 274 points, 49 comments. The maker (kelly) open-sourced the entire build: hardware list, software stack, mobile app. A physical display that clacks instead of glows. What it actually is Nine Alfazeta electromagnetic flip-disc panels tiled into an 84×42 grid. 3,528 metal discs, each flipping on a 24V pulse. Driving… Continue reading
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Waveshare UGV Beast turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a $360 off-road tracked robot
Most Pi 4/5 robot kits are flat-floor toys. The UGV Beast is the one actually built to climb stairs, cross sand, and survive being driven by an LLM at 2am. CNX Software flagged it on April 21, then Hackaday and Hackster picked it up — the r/raspberrypi and r/ROS threads have been busy since. What’s… Continue reading
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SamuRoid AI Humanoid Robot undercuts Unitree R1 by 13x with a Raspberry Pi 4 brain
XiaoRGEEK shipped a 22-DOF desktop biped for $1,565. Unitree R1 starts at $20K. That gap is the story. A 22-DOF biped on a Pi 4 Brain is a Raspberry Pi 4. Body is a 2.3 kg aluminum frame with 22 high-voltage bus servos — every joint has overheat, overvoltage, and stall protection, which matters when… Continue reading
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Reolink OMVI X16 + Reolink AI Box at CES 2026: cloud-free AI surveillance, finally hackable
Reolink rolled into CES 2026 with two pieces of hardware that pair up. The OMVI X16 PoE is a 24MP triple-lens security camera — a 16MP dual-lens panoramic shooter covering 180°, plus an 8MP PTZ lens with 16× optical zoom and 360° endless pan. Spot motion on the panoramic side and the PTZ automatically locks… Continue reading
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UGREEN AI NAS (iDX6011 Pro) raised $8.7M on Kickstarter — 87x oversubscribed
UGREEN’s first AI NAS closed its Kickstarter at $8,748,911 on April 23. Goal was $100K. 3,825 backers, fastest project to $1M on Kickstarter in 2026. Ships May. What’s in the box Desktop NAS box, not a subscription. Intel Core Ultra 7, 96 TOPS of on-device AI compute, 64GB LPDDR5X, up to 196TB across the bays.… Continue reading
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HUSKYLENS 2 from DFRobot is the first AI vision sensor with an MCP server baked in
DFRobot’s HUSKYLENS 2 is an edge AI vision sensor that runs a Model Context Protocol server on-device. Point Claude or ChatGPT at it and the LLM doesn’t get a JPEG — it gets a callable tool returning “I see Alice waving at the table.” Bounding boxes turned into semantic facts. What’s inside Kendryte K230 dual-core… Continue reading
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