Qualcomm announced at CES 2026 a new generation of robot tech that includes a comprehensive-stack architecture that integrates hardware, software, and compound AI.
Qualcomm also unveiled its latest high-performance robotics processor for industrial autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and advanced full-size humanoids, the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ10 Series.
This is the latest robotics-specific processor, which expands the current robotics roadmap for the company, delivering high-performance, energy-efficient “Brain of the Robot” capabilities.
Utilizing Qualcomm’s proven expertise in edge AI, high-performance, low-power systems, this innovation transforms prototypes into deployable, intelligent machines.
“As pioneers in energy-efficient, high–performance Physical AI systems, we know what it takes to make even the most complex robotics systems perform reliably, safely, and at scale,” said Nakul Duggal, executive vice president for automotive, industrial & embedded IoT and robotics at Qualcomm, in a statement. “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.”
“Figure’s mission is to develop general-purpose humanoid robots powered by advanced AI to eliminate unsafe and undesirable jobs, boost productivity across industries, and create economic abundance that enables happier, more purposeful lives for humanity,” stated Brett Adcock, CEO of Figure, in a statement. “Qualcomm Technologies’ platform, with its combination of exceptional compute capabilities and energy efficiency, is a valuable building block in enabling Figure to turn our vision into reality.”
Building on a Proven Foundation: From Concept to Deployment
This general-purpose robotics architecture utilizes Qualcomm Technologies’ unmatched expertise in power efficiency, scalability, and edge AI performance to unlock a new era of autonomous robotics and connected intelligence. Today, the Qualcomm Dragonwing industrial processor roadmap powers an assortment of general-purpose robotics form factors, including industry-leading humanoid robots from Booster, VinMotion, and other global robotics providers.
This architecture supports advanced perception, motion planning with end-to-end AI models such as VLAs and VLMs, enabling generalized manipulation capabilities and human-robot interaction. The introduction of the Dragonwing IQ10 helps Qualcomm Technologies take a significant step toward practical, real‑world deployment across industrial applications.
Comprehensive stack architecture
The general-purpose robotics architecture with the Dragonwing IQ10 redefines what’s possible in robotics by combining powerful heterogeneous edge computing, edge AI, mixed-criticality systems, software, machine learning operations, and an AI data flywheel, supported by a growing partner ecosystem and complemented by a strong suite of developer tools.
This end-to-end approach enables robots to easily reason and adapt to the spatial and temporal environment intelligently and is optimized to scale across various form factors with industrial-grade reliability. This collaborative network accelerates the development of deployment-ready robotics solutions, solving the last-mile challenge and enabling faster, more scalable innovation across industries.
Experience the Qualcomm-powered humanoids at CES 2026
VinMotion’s Motion 2 humanoid, powered by the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ9 Series will
debuted at the Qualcomm Booth #5001 during CES. Qualcomm Technologies and VinMotion are collaborating to build next-generation hardware-software platforms for robotics solutions, including advanced humanoids.
Also featured at the booth, Booster’s K1 Geek highlights Qualcomm Technologies’ leadership in edge AI, underscoring the Company’s commitment to advancing physical AI for developers and organizations alike. Qualcomm Technologies is also demonstrating Advantech’s commercially available robotics development kit for rapid, multi‑application development and deployment. Separately, the booth features an in-depth look into teleoperation tooling and an AI data flywheel for collection, training, and deployment to
continuously add new skills across robotic form factors.
Utilizing leadership in Physical AI with comprehensive stack systems built on a safety-grade high-performance SoC platforms, Qualcomm’s general-purpose robotics architecture delivers industry-leading power efficiency and scalability, enabling capabilities from personal service robots to next-generation industrial autonomous
mobile robots and full-size humanoids that can reason, adapt, and decide.
Unveiling an end‑to‑end, scalable robotics architecture that accelerates automation by
transforming physical embodiments for general‑purpose, continuously learning robots
for retail, logistics, and manufacturing.
The Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ10 Series is its leading and latest addition to premium-tier robotics processors for humanoids and advanced AMRs.
Figure and Qualcomm Technologies are collaborating to define the next generation compute architecture as Figure scales their humanoid platforms.
Qualcomm is building a comprehensive ecosystem for its robotics platforms, working
with a variety of companies such as Figure, Advantech, APLUX, AutoCore, Booster,
Robotec.ai, and VinMotion to bring deployment-ready robotics at scale.