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EDGE AI POD

EDGE AI POD

EDGE AI FOUNDATION 107 Episodes Aug 20, 2026

This podcast explores the cutting-edge field of energy-efficient machine learning and edge AI, covering hardware accelerators, software algorithms, and real-world applications. It features content from the EDGE AI Foundation community, including EDGE AI Talks, EDGE AI Blueprints, and event presentations. Episodes span research, product development, and business topics related to edge AI. The show aims to keep listeners informed and inspired about the latest developments in this growing field.

Episodes

Synthetic Data For Smarter Vision
Synthetic Data For Smarter Vision Aug 20, 2026 901 You shouldn’t need a warehouse full of broken products to build a reliable vision model. We dig into how synthetic data flips the script for manufacturing and quality control, showing why controlled scenes, perfect labels, and rapid iteration can outrun old pipelines of manual collection and error-prone annotation. With Sherry List and Goran from Synthetic AI Data, we walk through the strategy beh
Cloud Can’t Keep Up, So Your Toaster Gets A Brain
Cloud Can’t Keep Up, So Your Toaster Gets A Brain Aug 13, 2026 938 The cloud can’t carry the weight of billions of sensors forever, and we’re proving why. We walk through a new class of ultra‑low‑power, heterogeneous neuromorphic microcontrollers that bring real intelligence to the edge, where timing, latency, and privacy matter most. From raw IMU streams to on‑device actions, you’ll hear how spiking neural networks, tiny CNNs, and a RISC‑V core team up to decode
Edge AI That Cuts Chemical Waste
Edge AI That Cuts Chemical Waste Aug 6, 2026 1077 What if a lab test that takes 12 to 24 hours could be replaced by a live estimate that guides dosing in real time? We walk through a high-stakes water story where boron control in desalination demanded more than a clever model—it needed a secure, local-first AI system that works across wildly different plants.Our journey with Acciona started with a simple idea: a virtual sensor to predict boron an
The Skinny Transformer: Squeezing Gen AI into Tiny Devices
The Skinny Transformer: Squeezing Gen AI into Tiny Devices Jul 30, 2026 2567 The future of artificial intelligence isn't just in massive cloud data centers—it's happening right now on the devices all around us. This insightful panel discussion brings together leading experts from major semiconductor companies and academia to explore how Generative AI is transforming edge computing.What makes this conversation particularly valuable is the panelists' emphasis
How Microsecond AI Control Transforms Power Systems And Cuts Errors
How Microsecond AI Control Transforms Power Systems And Cuts Errors Jul 23, 2026 775 What if the control loop could think ahead and correct itself before errors take hold? We dive into a practical leap for motors, inverters, and energy storage: ultra-low-latency edge AI that predicts error trajectories at startup and intervenes inside the loop in about 100 microseconds. Instead of piling on sensors and pushing raw signals to the cloud, we work directly from existing operational da
Edge of Tomorrow: How NXP is Revolutionizing On-Device AI
Edge of Tomorrow: How NXP is Revolutionizing On-Device AI Jul 16, 2026 1724 The AI landscape is transforming rapidly, and NXP Semiconductors is at the forefront of bringing these capabilities where they matter most—directly to edge devices. Alberto Alvarez delivers a compelling overview of how NXP is enabling sophisticated generative AI to run locally on microprocessors, without relying on cloud connectivity.Unlike companies focused on massive cloud-based AI training, NXP
Hardware-Aware AI, Not Just Bigger Models
Hardware-Aware AI, Not Just Bigger Models Jul 9, 2026 833 What if the obstacle to fast, reliable AI isn’t your dataset or your optimizer—but the silicon under your model? We dig into why performance collapses when architecture and hardware don’t align, and we lay out a clear path to ship models that actually fly on the devices your users own. Starting with the Ferrari-and-hummingbird metaphor, we show how theoretical efficiency—FLOPs, parameters, even TO
What If A Pair Of Glasses Could Read Intent?
What If A Pair Of Glasses Could Read Intent? Jul 2, 2026 924 Imagine steering a game with nothing but a blink and a glance. That’s the spark behind our latest build: a noninvasive brain-computer interface that runs entirely on a tiny edge microcontroller, translating eye movements into reliable, real-time commands without a laptop or cloud.We start with the human why. Millions live with neurological conditions that constrain movement but preserve eye contro
Got Fake Chips? Our AI Doesn't Fall For That
Got Fake Chips? Our AI Doesn't Fall For That Jun 25, 2026 584 Semiconductor counterfeiting has grown into a $200 billion annual problem threatening the integrity of global electronics supply chains. As both chip shortages and sophisticated counterfeiting techniques persist, traditional detection methods fall short—requiring complex setups, hardware modifications, or extensive data labeling.Two machine learning engineers from Analog Devices' advanced R&a
Smarter AI, Faster Hardware
Smarter AI, Faster Hardware Jun 18, 2026 704 Your phone, watch, and even your fridge want real-time intelligence—but power and latency won’t tolerate bloated models or generic compute. We walk through a practical path from Python to custom hardware using high-level synthesis, then invite you to prove it in our Efficient Inferencing Hackathon. With a ready-to-run RISC‑V Rocket Core baseline for MNIST, a full Siemens EDA toolchain, and on-dema
Village OS: AI For Sustainable Living
Village OS: AI For Sustainable Living Jun 11, 2026 3660 What if a neighborhood could think, heal, and feed itself? We sit down with James Ehrlich of Stanford to unpack Village OS, a generative AI platform that designs resilient communities by starting with a simple question: what does the land want? From the urban edge of Riyadh to peri-urban sites worldwide, James shows how geospatial data, climate histories, hydrology, and cultural patterns come toge
When Edge AI Meets Hearing Loss, Access Gets Real
When Edge AI Meets Hearing Loss, Access Gets Real Jun 4, 2026 887 Crowded cafés, clinking plates, and echoey halls make conversations exhausting. We set out to change that by fitting real deep learning into an ear-sized device and proving it can separate speech from noise with almost no delay or battery hit. The result isn’t louder sound; it’s clearer lives and less fatigue.We walk through the full Clara enhancement path: transforming raw mic input into log-mel

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