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Edge Computing Robotics

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Processing data locally on the robot or on nearby edge servers rather than in the cloud, reducing latency and bandwidth requirements. Edge computing is critical for real-time robot perception and control where cloud round-trip times (>50ms) are unacceptable. NVIDIA Jetson, Intel NUC, and Qualcomm RB5 are common edge computing platforms for robots.

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