After Qualcomm acquired microcontroller board manufacturer Arduino last year, the two parties recently jointly launched a new single-board computer Arduino Ventuno Q that deeply combines AI and robotics technology. This product is equipped with Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 processor and integrates an STM32H5 low-latency microcontroller (MCU). Officials say it is designed for various systems that "move, control and respond accurately in the physical world".
Compared with Arduino's traditional integrated development board, Ventuno Q is positioned more high-end and more expensive. The core lies in the computing power configuration of the Dragonwing IQ8 platform itself. The processor uses an 8-core ARM Cortex CPU and is equipped with an Adreno Arm Cortex A623 GPU and a Hexagon Tensor NPU. The AI computing power can reach up to about 40 TOPS. In terms of onboard storage, the new board provides 16GB LPDDR5 memory and 64GB eMMC flash memory, while reserving an M.2 NVMe Gen4 slot to expand storage space. In terms of connectivity, Ventuno Q supports Wi‑Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, 2.5Gbps Ethernet, and can be directly connected to USB cameras, leaving sufficient interfaces for visual and networking applications.
Software and AI capabilities are also a major selling point of Ventuno Q. The new board has a built-in Arduino App Lab, which is pre-installed with multiple types of pre-trained AI models, including large language models (LLM), visual language models (VLM), automatic speech recognition (ASR), gesture recognition, attitude estimation, and target tracking. It is also emphasized that these models can all be run locally and offline. Officials point its key application scenarios to completely offline AI systems, such as smart self-service terminals, medical auxiliary equipment, traffic flow analysis, and various edge vision and perception systems. In the direction of robots, Ventuno Q supports a complete robot software stack that combines vision processing with deterministic motor control, targeting robot platforms that require high-precision vision and operation capabilities.
Arduino also emphasized that this platform is also suitable for education and scientific research, especially in the fields of computer vision, generative AI, and various edge prototype development. Qualcomm stated in the promotion that "With Ventuno Q, AI can finally move from the cloud to the physical world" and said that this single board can allow machines to complete "perception, decision-making and action" locally at the same time. Their goal is to make advanced robotics and edge AI capabilities more accessible to every developer, educator, and innovatoraccessible.
According to reports, Arduino Ventuno Q is expected to be available for sale in the official Arduino store and other channels in the second quarter of 2026, and the price is expected to be less than $300.