Windows for robots: Edge AI expands usability
Edge AI software layer diagram. Source: Numurus Before Windows, only engineers and computer scientists could do much with computers. Windows changed that by giving everyone a user interface, built-in apps, and plug-and-play hardware capabilities that all worked together. The same shift is now arriving for robots. I remember when the first PCs came out. I was just starting college to become a robotics engineer, and I was excited. PCs were powerful machines. Microprocessors were faster than anythi
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