Case Studies

Decisions, not just demos

Decision-focused case studies on edge AI and IoT architecture — showing what was at stake, what path was chosen, and how risk was reduced.

When Should an Industrial Robot Refuse to Move? Building an Offline AI Safety Demo thumbnail

When Should an Industrial Robot Refuse to Move? Building an Offline AI Safety Demo

An offline robotics demo that uses a local multimodal model to interpret commands, assess visual risk and refuse unsafe movement.

Edge AIRoboticsIndustrial SafetyVision Language Models
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Production-Grade, Fail-Safe OTA for a Multi-Processor IoT Appliance thumbnail

Production-Grade, Fail-Safe OTA for a Multi-Processor IoT Appliance

A practical blueprint for safely updating embedded Linux, MCU firmware, ML models, and cloud services across a large connected-appliance fleet.

IoTOTA UpdatesEmbedded SystemsEdge AI
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From Berlin to Schiphol: WeAreDevelopers, a Lost Passport, and an Overbooked Flight thumbnail

From Berlin to Schiphol: WeAreDevelopers, a Lost Passport, and an Overbooked Flight

Reflections from my first WeAreDevelopers conference in Berlin, with an unexpected airport adventure along the way.

ConferencesAIDeveloper ToolsTravel
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Physical AI in High-Precision, Low-Volume Manufacturing thumbnail

Physical AI in High-Precision, Low-Volume Manufacturing

Applying robotics, automation, and AI to high-precision, low-volume manufacturing in watchmaking, jewelry, and related industries.

Physical AIRoboticsManufacturingIndustrial AI
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Edge AI for Robotics: Building Intelligent Machines That Can Sense, Decide, and Act thumbnail

Edge AI for Robotics: Building Intelligent Machines That Can Sense, Decide, and Act

How edge AI enables robots to sense, decide, and act reliably in real-world environments through low-latency, hybrid physical AI architectures.

RoboticsEdge AIPhysical AIEmbedded Systems
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OpenClaw is now controlling my robot thumbnail

OpenClaw is now controlling my robot

OpenClaw now controls my rover via ROS 2, turning high-level goals into real hardware actions with on-device perception and speech.

RoboticsROS2Edge AIAgents
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Edge AI inspection robot with Edge Impulse and ROS 2 thumbnail

Edge AI inspection robot with Edge Impulse and ROS 2

Integrating Edge Impulse object detection with ROS 2 for real-time perception and tracking on an inspection robot.

RoboticsROS2Edge AIEdge Impulse
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SMARTsurg: Designing More Intuitive Interfaces for Surgical Robotics thumbnail

SMARTsurg: Designing More Intuitive Interfaces for Surgical Robotics

How wearable hand tracking, haptic teleoperation and machine learning can help surgical robots respond to the natural movements of experienced surgeons.

Surgical RoboticsWearable SensingTeleoperationMachine Learning
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Edge AI in Practice: From Model Prototype to Reliable Deployment thumbnail

Edge AI in Practice: From Model Prototype to Reliable Deployment

A practical guide to the decisions that turn a machine-learning model into a reliable edge product—from sensing and hardware selection to deployment and monitoring.

Edge AIEmbedded SystemsIoTMachine Learning
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Robot Teleoperativo: Immersive Robotics for Hazardous Environments thumbnail

Robot Teleoperativo: Immersive Robotics for Hazardous Environments

Inside an IIT research programme combining a quadruped robot, dexterous manipulation, force feedback and virtual reality to keep people out of hazardous environments.

TeleoperationRoboticsHuman-Robot InteractionActive Perception
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