Humanoid & robot atlas
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Robot chipsIn 1 robot modelUnited States

Qualcomm · robot chip

Snapdragon 820 (APQ8096)

Phone-class SoC that Sony used as the brain of the 2018 aibo robot dog (ERS-1000).

Compute
Quad-core Kryo CPU, Adreno 530 GPU, Hexagon 680 DSP
Power
—Not published
Process
14 nmTransistor node
Made by
SamsungFoundry
First year
2016
Price
—Not published

Robots that use it

1 robot model whose maker or reputable press names this chip.

How we know: 1 source, one per robot

The Qualcomm family

Every Qualcomm chip in the atlas, oldest first.

  1. 2016Snapdragon 820 (APQ8096)Quad-core Kryo CPU, Adreno 530 GPU, Hexagon 680 DSP1
  2. 2018QCS6058-core Kryo 300 CPU with Hexagon 685 DSP for vision AI1
  3. 2020QRB5165 (Robotics RB5)15 TOPS
  4. 2023QCS6490 (RB3 Gen 2)12 TOPS
  5. 2023QCS855048 TOPS1
  6. 2023Snapdragon Ride Flex (SA8775P)16-24 TOPS
  7. 2024Dragonwing IQ-9075100 TOPS1

About Qualcomm

United States · chip designer

Fabless Snapdragon designer. Its robotics line (RB5, RB3 Gen 2, Dragonwing IQ series) targets robots and drones, and Snapdragon Ride and Ride Flex target driver assistance and automated driving.

Sources

Specs come from the maker and reference pages. The source for each robot is under "How we know" above.

Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 and Kryo CPU: heterogeneous computing and the role of custom compute

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