The most powerful Arduino yet is a $299 board for autonomous robots.
Arduino and Qualcomm have opened preorders for the Ventuno Q, an edge AI board designed to run agentic AI locally. Powered by a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 processor offering up to 40 TOPS alongside a dedicated real-time microcontroller, it allows smart devices and robots to process vision, speech, and sensor data completely offline. [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/ABX00181_01.iso_998x749.jpg.webp?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/ABX00181_context-01_998x749.jpg.webp?quality=90&strip=all] [Image: https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/08/ABX00181_context-08_998x749.jpg.webp?quality=90&strip=all]