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AMD is positioning its embedded Ryzen AI and FPGA chips as an alternative to NVIDIA for humanoid robot brains. Foundation Future Industries and Generative Bionics have both announced humanoids built on AMD compute.
- Category
- Computers and chips
- Country
- United States
- Founded
- 1969
- Reported customers
- 2Named by the press or the companies
- Robots
- 5Name it in their parts
- Listed
- AMD (NASDAQ)Stock market
What it makes
From the company's own description and the sources below.
- Makes
- Embedded processors, GPUs and FPGAs used as robot brains and for sensor fusion and hand control.
- Parts
- Robot AI processor or module
- Tier
- Parts and modules
- Founded
- 1969
- Listed
- AMD (NASDAQ)
- Products
- Ryzen AI Embedded X100, Kria robotics platform, Versal adaptive SoC, FPGAs
Chips and boards
Each has its own profile with specs and the robots that use it.
- CPUs2023 Ryzen 7 7840 series (Radeon 780M)AMD —8 Zen 4 cores with Radeon 780M graphics No robot named yet
- CPUs2022 Ryzen Embedded V3000AMD —Up to 8 Zen 3 cores Used in 1 robot model
- AI accelerators2021 Versal AI EdgeAMD —Adaptive SoC: FPGA fabric, Arm cores and AI Engine-ML tiles No robot named yet
- Robot modules2021 Kria K26 SOMAMD —Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC module with FPGA vision acceleration No robot named yet
Reported customers
Supply deals and partnerships as reported by the companies or the press.
Phantom (MK-1)Foundation Future IndustriesRyzen AI Embedded X100 processors and FPGAs · 2026-07Foundation said its Phantom humanoids will use AMD Ryzen AI Embedded X100 chips for perception and AMD FPGAs for hand control and sensing. Unite.AI
GENE.01Generative BionicsCPUs, GPUs and FPGAs for tactile sensor fusion · 2026-01GENE.01 was unveiled in AMD's CES 2026 keynote and is powered by AMD CPUs, GPUs, embedded processors and FPGAs. Interesting Engineering
Named in robots' parts lists
Quotes are from each robot's parts profile, which links its sources.
- GENE.01Generative Bionics · 2026Prototype
“AMD CPUs, GPUs and FPGA-based embedded vision and sensor platforms (CES 2026 concept description).”
Reachy 2Pollen Robotics (Hugging Face) · 2024Commercial“SolidRun Bedrock V3000 PC (AMD Ryzen Embedded V3000) on board;”
THEMISWestwood Robotics · 2024Prototype“Main computer with AMD Ryzen 7 7840 CPU and Radeon 780M graphics, 32 GB DDR5;”
REEM-BPAL Robotics · 2008Retired“Two main computers, one real-time for control and one for multimedia (Gulf News): an Intel Core 2 Duo at 1.66 GHz plus an AMD Geode at 500 MHz.”
NAOAldebaran Robotics · 2007Commercial“AMD Geode 500 MHz (2008), Intel Atom Z530 1.6 GHz (2009 onwards), Intel Atom E3845 quad-core 1.91 GHz with 4 GB RAM and 32 GB SSD (NAO6, 2018).”
Sources
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