Keynote Panel: Building the Next Era of Robot Autonomy
As robots move beyond enclosed industrial settings into shared human environments, safety and real-time performance must be engineered into systems from the start. QNX President, John Wall, joined executives from Amazon Robotics, Locus Robotics, and Universal Robots for the opening keynote panel to explore how leading organizations are enabling safe autonomy at scale.
Sensor Fusion and Deterministic Safety
Digital Factory Automation & Collision Avoidance
QNX visualized the future of the factory floor with a production-style Digital Factory environment. A QNX-powered high-fidelity robotic arm demonstrated real-time object detection and avoidance, responding immediately and deterministically whenever an object or person enters its path of motion.
QNX Everywhere: Accessible Robotics Prototyping
From Concept to Commercial-Grade
Designed to lower the barrier to entry for early-stage development, this interactive station featured a robotic arm built on affordable hardware. Visitors saw how developers can prototype quickly for free, and scale confidently to production without rewriting code.
AI-Enabled Robotics on Intel and NVIDIA Hardware
Powered by high-performance Intel and NVIDIA hardware, this demonstration used AI-based motion tracking to replicate human movement with precision. Visitors watched an on-screen avatar mirror your motions in real-time, illustrating the low-latency responsiveness required for next-generation humanoid and AI-enabled robotics platforms.
Taming Software-Defined Complexity
QNX highlighted the QNX General Embedded Development Platform (GEDP) through an interactive display reflecting our four decades of reliability in mission-critical software. This exhibit spotlighted how QNX helps teams simplify complex architectures while maintaining performance and security from the SoC to the cloud.
QNX Named Overall Leader in Robotics RTOS
The Trusted Foundation for Physical AI
ABI Research has now recognized QNX as the Overall Leader in its competitive ranking of Commercial Real-Time Operating Systems (RTOS) for Robotics Functional Safety, earning the number one spot with an overall score of 87.1. QNX was also awarded the title of Top Innovator. The era of Physical AI is here. From autonomous mobile robots navigating dynamic factory floors to precision surgical robots operating in mission-critical environments, machines are increasingly interacting with the physical world in real-time. The defining innovation of QNX for this era is its true microkernel architecture.
