NXP Semiconductors has unveiled a unified robotics platform built on its Neural Axis Architecture. The Dutch chipmaker announced it on 9 November.
The platform is an open software development kit plus hardware reference designs. The kit is modular and open source, and works with PX4, Zephyr and ROS 2. It brings together sensing, real-time control, AI processing and communication.
NXP says developers have spent months integrating and testing the separate parts of a robot. It says the pre-integrated software and tested parts can shorten that to days or weeks.
NXP says drone makers can start by evaluating the motor control part, then add AI-based perception, flight control and navigation. The platform is aimed at drones first, with service robots and autonomous mobile robots planned later.
Background
Neural Axis Architecture
Chip architecture
NXP's architecture that links sensing, real-time control, AI processing and communication across a robot.
