Arduino has announced the upcoming launch of its newest platform to democratise edge AI, Arduino VENTUNO Q. VENTUNO Q unites high-performance AI compute with deterministic real-time control, enabling systems that do not just interpret the world but interact with it.
Named after the Italian word for twenty-one, VENTUNO Q builds on the iconic legacy of the popular Arduino UNO family and embodies the company's coming of age as it prepares to celebrate its foundation's 21st anniversary later this month.
The board builds upon a dual-brain architecture similar to Arduino UNO Q, yet significantly upgrades capabilities leveraging the Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 Series for both traditional and generative AI workloads, supported by NPU acceleration delivering up to 40 dense TOPS, as well as a dedicated STM32H5 microcontroller for low-latency actuation and motor control. VENTUNO Q features 16 GB RAM and expandable 64 GB storage.
With VENTUNO Q, AI can finally move from the cloud into the physical world. This platform makes it possible to build machines that perceive, decide, and act, all on a single board. Our goal is to make advanced robotics and edge AI accessible to every developer, educator, and innovator.
Users will be able to prototype and build solutions across a variety of fields running fully autonomous AI agents offline, including AI-powered systems such as completely offline AI voice assistants; robotics and motion control including precise pick-and-place robotic arms guided by vision; edge AI vision and sensing systems; and education and research applications.
By uniting Arduino's developer ecosystem with the power of Dragonwing processors, we are making advanced edge AI available to millions of developers worldwide.
VENTUNO Q eliminates multi-device complexity by delivering synchronised perception, decision, and action on a single board. The main processor runs Ubuntu and Linux Debian with upstream support, while the real-time microcontroller runs the Arduino Core on Zephyr OS.
Arduino VENTUNO Q will be available in Q2 2026 from the Arduino Store, as well as via official resellers including DigiKey, Farnell, Macfos, Mouser and RS.
