LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 (Xinhua) -- U.S. tech giant Qualcomm on Tuesday unveiled a suite of robotics technologies at the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show (CES), highlighting its latest advances in physical artificial intelligence (AI), from household robots to full-size humanoids.
At the show which opened in the U.S. city of Las Vegas on Tuesday, Qualcomm introduced a next-generation, end-to-end robotics architecture integrating hardware, software and AI capabilities. According to the company, the general-purpose architecture is designed to deliver high power efficiency and scalability, supporting a wide range of applications from personal service robots to industrial autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and advanced humanoid systems.
Qualcomm also unveiled its latest robotics-focused processor, the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ10 Series, aimed at industrial AMRs and full-size humanoid robots. This expands the company's robotics roadmap and is intended to provide high-performance, energy-efficient computing processor capabilities for perception, planning and action, known as the "brain of the robot."
To accelerate real-world deployment, Qualcomm said it is building an ecosystem around its robotics platforms, working with partners including Advantech, APLUX, AutoCore and Booster to support scalable, deployment-ready robotics solutions.
"By building on our strong foundational low-latency safety-grade high performance technologies ranging from sensing, perception to planning and action, we're redefining what's possible with physical AI by moving intelligent machines out of the labs and into real-world environments," said Nakul Duggal, executive vice president and group general manager of automotive, industrial and embedded IoT and robotics at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. ■
