Qualcomm is mostly known for its wide range of smartphone SoCs but that isn’t all it manufactures. Qualcomm also manufactures chipsets for smartwatches, laptops, smart TVs and even robotics. The US fabless chip maker has unveiled a new robotics platform dubbed Robotics RB5.
The new platform is based around a variant of its Snapdragon 865 processor. The RB5 uses the QRB5165 processor with the same CPU, GPU, ISP, and DSP as the Snapdragon 865. This time around, the platform features support for industrial-grade temperate ranges from -40°C to 105°C. It also brings some nice enhancements to computer vision.
The new QRB5165 processor at the heart of the RB5 includes the Kryo 585 CPU (4x Cortex-A77 CPU cores in the 1+3 configuration, plus 4x Cortex-A55 cores). The processor also teams up with the Adreno 650 GPU, the Spectra 480 ISP plus the Hexagon DSP. The processor can be used for heavy compute tasks, advanced AI tasks (using the DSP and the GPU together), and for computer vision.
The Spectra 480 ISP onboard is said to be capable of processing 2 Gigapixels per second. On the RB5165, that means developers can connect up to seven cameras (great for fully autonomous robotics) as well as process 8K video and 4K HDR video. The Spectra 480 also includes the Engine for Video Analytics (EVA) to handle all Computer Vision and Robot Vision tasks.
For software options, the RB5 will run on Ubuntu Linux, Yocto, and Robot Operating System (ROS) 2.0. It even features support for AWS RoboMaker. Qualcomm also provides a Neural Processing SDK for advanced on-device AI, Computer Vision SDK for vision processing and the Robotics Vision SDK for feature recognition, obstacle detection, etc.
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