Qualcomm

The US chip giant that launched its Dragonwing robotics chips and acquired Arduino and PickNik.

Qualcomm was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California, started by Irwin Jacobs and six other former employees of the communications company Linkabit, and is known for CDMA technology and Snapdragon phone chips. On robotics, it launched the RB5 robotics development platform in 2020 and later grouped its industrial and embedded chips under the Dragonwing brand. In October 2025 it acquired the open-hardware company Arduino, launching the UNO Q development board built on its own chip; in January 2026 at CES it released the Dragonwing IQ10 processor and a full robotics hardware-and-software solution for full-size humanoids and industrial AMRs, saying it was co-designing the compute platform for Figure's next-generation humanoid, positioning it as a rival to NVIDIA's Jetson Thor. In September 2026 it also announced the acquisition of PickNik, the maintainer of MoveIt, pledging that MoveIt would remain open source.

ExampleThe Arduino UNO Q runs a Linux application and a real-time control program on the same board at once, letting a small robot handle both vision recognition and motor control.

Also called

Qualcomm Technologies

Related

Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ10 · NVIDIA Jetson Thor · NVIDIA Jetson · Arduino / ESP32 Microcontroller Boards · MoveIt Motion Planning Framework · Onboard Compute Platform

Sources

Qualcomm - Wikipedia
Qualcomm Introduces a Full Suite of Robotics Technologies（Edge AI and Vision Alliance）
Qualcomm to Acquire PickNik to Advance the Future of Open Robotics and Physical AI（高通官网） (Chinese)

As of

2026-09