Valens Semiconductor, RGo Robotics, and CHERRY Embedded Solutions Partner to Design Optimized AI Robotic Systems

HOD HASHARON, Israel and CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 11, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Valens Semiconductor (NYSE: VLN), RGo Robotics, and CHERRY Embedded Solutions, today announced a partnership to enhance the design and deployment of AI robotic systems. This collaboration integrates RGo's advanced Perception Engine, Valens' VA7000 MIPI A-PHY connectivity chipsets, and CHERRY's Rockchip-based hardware module, delivering unprecedented design flexibility, cost-efficiency, and performance for mobile machines manufacturers, without compromising on performance.

Advanced robotic and intelligent mobile systems rely on AI algorithms, operating primarily on video data from cameras. Short-range connectivity constraints of camera interfaces have often forced developers to place processing units adjacent to cameras, increasing system cost and complexity. Valens' MIPI A-PHY solution, offers the robotics industry reliable high-bandwidth extension.

MIPI A-PHY is the first SerDes standard for sensor connectivity of the widely used CSI-2 interface, ensuring the reliable extension of high bandwidth video to a centralized processing unit over extended distances. As a standard designed for automotive environments, MIPI A-PHY offers exceptional signal integrity for highly demanding electromagnetic conditions. As such, the technology is well suited for machine vision applications including autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), edge perception for human driven machines, automated guided vehicles (AGVs), and service robots.

"Our Robotics Perception Engine demands high-quality video data, and that's exactly what Valens' connectivity solution provides while allowing us to distance the processing unit from the sensors," said Amir Bousani, Co-Founder & CEO at RGo Robotics. "This will lead to more sensor fusion with optimized designs, while significantly reducing system costs and complexity."

"Our collaboration with RGo Robotics underscores the critical role of MIPI A-PHY technology in delivering high-performance connectivity for AI-driven perception systems," said Gili Friedman, Head of the Cross-Industry Business Unit at Valens Semiconductor. "With our VA7000 MIPI A-PHY chipsets, we're allowing robotics developers to optimize camera placement in their systems, paving the way for smarter, more efficient automation. This automotive-grade standard is the foundation for innovation, across industries."

"The addition of Valens VA7000 MIPI A-PHY connectivity into our portfolio opens new opportunities for our platform," said Dr. Manfred Mueller, Head of Business Development at CHERRY Embedded Solutions. "Valens and A-PHY solve a pain point for the machine vision industry. With this standard, our customers will be able to simplify their multi-camera system architecture."

The joint demonstration by will be on display at Embedded World 2025 in Nuremberg, Germany, from March 11-13 at Hall 2, Booth #454.

About Valens Semiconductor

Valens Semiconductor (NYSE:VLN) is a leader in high-performance connectivity, enabling customers to transform the digital experiences of people worldwide. Valens' chipsets are integrated into countless devices from leading customers, powering state-of-the-art audio-video installations, next-generation videoconferencing, and enabling the evolution of ADAS and autonomous driving. Pushing the boundaries of connectivity, Valens sets the standard everywhere it operates, and its technology forms the basis for the leading industry standards such as HDBaseT® and MIPI A-PHY. For more information, visit https://www.valens.com/.

About RGo Robotics

RGo Robotics is revolutionizing the AI robotics and automation industry with its robust and reliable groundbreaking edge perception software platform enabling mobile machines to perceive, understand and interact with the world around them. Our platform delivers real-time localization and 3D semantic information, enabling autonomous navigation, digital presence of all moving machines, Intelligent site maps and provision of spatial information to a range of AI applications to improve productivity, efficiency and safety.

Deployed with leading industrial companies and gaining significant traction in the market, RGo's solution stands out for its ability to provide high performance, ready to scale edge perception solution that can be easily deployed and integrated with multiple applications.

RGo Robotics has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Caesarea, Israel, and is backed by a diversified set of leading investors and strategic partners.

https://www.rgorobotics.ai/

About CHERRY Embdded Solutions

Based in Vienna, Austria, CHERRY Embedded Solutions (formerly Theobroma Systems) develops and manufactures reliable and robust System-on-Modules (SoM), Single-Board Computers (SBC) and Full-Custom Design devices (FCD) for a global customer base. CHERRY Embedded Solutions' high-quality embedded systems are the basis of smart devices in the global Internet of Things (IoT). Development kits for evaluation purposes and technical services along the product's entire life cycle round off the offering.

CHERRY Embedded Solutions' modules combine application-specific performance and cost efficiency. They are used in a wide range of professional and industrial applications, from autonomous mobile robots, digital healthcare, smart retail, and digital signage all the way to video surveillance. As a trusted brand, CHERRY Embedded Solutions designs its products with inherent security in mind. The company designs and manufactures products certified according to the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (ISO/IEC 15408), for example high-security devices for the German healthcare telematics infrastructure. CHERRY Embedded Solutions has been part of CHERRY since 2020.

To learn more about CHERRY Embedded Solutions, please visit embedded.cherry.de

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CHERRY Launches High-Performance System-on-Module for Advanced Robotics and Smart Systems

Vienna, May 08, 2024 – CHERRY today unveiled its new System-on-Module (SoM), the TIGER SOM-RK3588-Q7, engineered to deliver exceptional computational performance, the ability to connect multiple high-resolution cameras, deep learning capabilities, and state-of-the-art security functions.

Core features of the TIGER SOM-RK3588-Q7:

TIGER SOM-RK3588-Q7 is based on Rockchip’s high-end, low-power SoC RK3588, featuring an octa-core CPU with four ARM Cortex-A76 and four ARM Cortex-A55, an ARM Mali-G610 GPU, and an NPU with up to 6 TOPs.
The CPU enables both ARM Cryptographic Extension for wire-rate AES cryptography and Advanced SIMD vector processing.
Equipped with a triple-core NPU, the module supports multi-task and multi-scenario operations based on deep learning frameworks including TensorFlow, Caffe, Pytorch and others. It is ideally suited for real-time object detection and scene recognition in various applications.
Four MIPI CSI interfaces provide native support for cost-effective high-resolution cameras.
Featuring an optional Secure Element certified to EAL6+ and a secure boot mechanism guaranteeing that only signed images can run on the device, the SoM ensures government-grade security for the identification and storage of keys. This enables cloud services such as remote software management and preventive device management to be rendered while maintaining the highest level of cybersecurity.

Dr. Stefan Roth, Managing Director of CHERRY Embedded Solutions, states, “TIGER SOM-RK3588-Q7 is part of our SoM series, which has been specially designed to meet the needs of demanding intelligent mobile IoT applications. Developed and manufactured in Austria, it perfectly combines reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency. Numerous hardware and software customization options ensure optimum tailoring to the individual requirements of our customers.”

TIGER is particularly suited for demanding applications in areas such as computer vision.

Typical use cases include:

Autonomous Mobile Robots: Empower robots with the ability to navigate complex environments autonomously.
Video Surveillance: Enhance security systems with advanced processing capabilities for real-time analysis.
Smart Displays: Drive intelligent, high-resolution display solutions with superior image processing technology, voice and gesture control.

RGo Robotics and Theobroma Systems Announce a New Solution for Intelligent Robots

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., USA / VIENNA, Austria - (March 07, 2024) – RGo Robotics (RGo), a pioneer in artificial perception for mobile machines, and Theobroma Systems, a CHERRY Group company and a provider of high-quality System-on-Modules and Single-Board Computers for a wide range of applications, have announced the immediate availability of an integrated solution powered by RGo’s Perception Engine™ on Theobroma’s JAGUAR board.

The integrated solution is based on Theobroma’s new JAGUAR Single-Board Computer SBC-RK3588-AMR. JAGUAR has been designed and optimized, in terms of connectivity, real-time processing power, memory and energy efficiency for advanced robotics applications powered by AI and visual perception. The integrated solution can be quickly and effortlessly integrated into a wide range of industrial robots such as autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and automated guided vehicles (AGVs), as well as professional service robots such as those used in transportation, hospitality and agriculture.

RGo’s Perception Engine is fully integrated into JAGUAR. Installations on customer platforms demonstrate the groundbreaking capabilities of the joint solution. It can track the robot pose, location and heading robustly and reliably to centimeter-scale accuracy. It works reliably in dynamic, unstructured or repetitive environments, indoors and outdoors, and on fast-moving machines such as forklifts and tugger carts. The technical advantages of JAGUAR together with RGo’s software enable robot manufacturers to quickly upgrade to state-of-the-art visual perception.

JAGUAR incorporates Rockchip’s RK3588 SoC that features a powerful octa-core CPU, a Mali G610 GPU and an NPU with up to 6 TOPs and supports up to four cost-effective MIPI CSI cameras.

“The new JAGUAR platform with our Perception Engine allows robot manufacturers to easily upgrade their machine with visual perception. The hardware is designed for industrial mobile robots and has all the functionality and connectors needed for the entirety of the robotic solution’s lifecycle, from initial integration to series production. Its reliability, affordability and ease of integration makes the solution an appealing option for robot manufacturers when considering whether to use visual perception,” says RGo’s CEO and co-founder, Amir Bousani. “The platform is powerful enough to run our advanced perception technology and can leave room for the robot control software.”

“Theobroma Systems, a CHERRY Group company, has a proven history of reliable, high-quality embedded systems for many industries. Both the development and production of JAGUAR are carried out by a closely coordinated, experienced team in Vienna in the very heart of Europe. This ensures seamless integration of software and hardware, and top manufacturing quality at a highly competitive price, making JAGUAR the perfect platform for RGo’s Perception Engine in a wide range of robotic products. In this way, the joint solution offers a perfect balance between performance and cost, enabling manufacturers of robots and industrial automation machines to rapidly open up new business areas with innovative products,” says Dr. Stefan Roth, managing director at Theobroma Systems.

The RGo team will be available to answer questions at Modex 2024 in Hall A, Booth 9518 (March 11-14 at the Atlanta Expo Center) and at LogiMAT in Hall 6, Stand D25 (March 19-21 at the Stuttgart Convention Center).

Meetings can be booked using the following link: https://www.rgorobotics.ai/logimat-modex-shows

About Cherry Embedded Solutions GmbH

Based in Vienna, Austria, CHERRY Embedded Solutions (formerly Theobroma Systems) develops and manufactures reliable and robust System-on-Modules (SoM), Single-Board Computers (SBC) and Full-Custom Design devices (FCD) for a global customer base. CHERRY Embedded Solutions’ high-quality embedded systems are the basis of smart devices in the global Internet of Things (IoT). Development kits for evaluation purposes and technical services along the product’s entire life cycle round off the offering.

CHERRY Embedded Solutions’ modules combine application-specific performance and cost efficiency. They are used in a wide range of professional and industrial applications, from autonomous mobile robots, digital healthcare, smart retail, and digital signage all the way to video surveillance.

As a trusted brand, CHERRY Embedded Solutions designs its products with inherent security in mind. The company is certified according to the Common Criteria for Information Technology Security Evaluation (ISO/IEC 15408) and meets, for example, the high security standards of the German healthcare telematics infrastructure.

CHERRY Embedded Solutions has been part of the CHERRY Group since 2020.

About RGo Robotics
RGo Robotics pioneered and deployed an AI-powered, location-aware perception solution that enables all mobile machines, both robotic and human-controlled, to perceive their surroundings and learn on the go using state-of-the-art and proven computer vision and AI algorithms, as well as sophisticated and scalable sensor fusion technology. RGo Perception Engine™ enables the autonomous driving of robots, remote operations, tracking of assets and inventory, geofencing, and dynamic shared mapping. It can be easily integrated into mobile machines at the point of manufacture or as an add-on post market. RGo’s team comprises of world-class leaders with considerable academic and industry experience in bringing AI-powered, industrial-grade software to scale. RGo Robotics has offices in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Caesarea, Israel, and is backed by a diversified set of leading investors and strategic partners.

To learn more about RGo Robotics, please visit rgorobotics.ai