AI is rapidly moving into the physical world, giving rise to physical AI. This shift enables systems to perceive, decide, and act in real time, interacting directly with dynamic, unpredictable environments. Robotics and commercial drones are at the forefront of this evolution, driving new levels of automation and efficiency across healthcare, retail, transportation, and manufacturing.

In high-risk environments such as agriculture, warehouses, and industrial plants, robots and drones reduce human exposure to hazardous conditions. Ground-based robots handle repetitive or physically demanding tasks, while drones provide visibility across large or hard-to-reach areas, enabling real-time monitoring, inspection, and data collection.

In commercial settings, robots are reshaping the customer experience. For example, in retail stores, robots can answer questions, fetch products, and provide information. Drones extend these capabilities beyond the store, supporting inventory tracking, last-mile delivery, and site-to-site logistics with speed and efficiency. Together, these systems create a more responsive, intelligent operating environment, where physical tasks and real-time insights work in sync.

At the hardware level, robotics and drones demand powerful, efficient compute capable of handling real-time perception, decision-making, and multimodal processing. While many deployments will leverage a hybrid approach that combines edge and cloud, processing at the edge remains critical for delivering the speed, responsiveness, and low latency these systems require.

MediaTek’s Genio Pro 5100 is designed to meet these demands for physical AI applications. Based on TSMC’s 3nm process and featuring our 8th generation NPU, it delivers over 50 TOPS of system-level generative AI acceleration. This enables unrivaled acceleration for traditional AI tasks such as machine vision and object classification.

For generative AI applications, Genio Pro 5100 supports token generation rates of up to 23 tokens per second for large language models (LLMs) with up to 7B parameters. Genio Pro 5100 enables advanced camera sensor fusion for vision-based applications, supporting up to 16 cameras. It also delivers rich user interfaces, supporting up to three 4K displays.