P-04: Edge AI runtime

APEX

The synchronous autonomy runtime that every newOrigin machine shares. From 200 Hz whole-body balance to multimodal language and vision heads, compiled into a single execution graph.

Loop rate200 Hz
Latency21 ms (8-bit)
ArchitectureThor / Orin edge
LicensingOEM SDK available
v0.1 runtime
Execution graph

Five stages
on one clock

A single synchronized 5 ms tick enforces deterministic execution. High-frequency balance commands are never starved by background neural network inferences.

S-01Sensor Ingestion & HALDirect memory access (DMA) capture from solid-state lidar, stereo IMU, and 4-point sole force load cells1 kHz tick
S-02Perception & SLAMQuantized edge visual-inertial odometry and obstacle voxel grid reconstruction50 Hz
S-03Whole-Body MPCNonlinear model predictive control solving contact schedule and centroidal dynamics200 Hz
S-04Joint Torque DispatchQuasi-direct drive and series-elastic impedance controller with thermal derating compensation1 kHz bus
S-05Safety SupervisorIndependent hardware watchdog, tip-over predictor and fail-closed electromagnetic brake clampHard real-time
Optimization

Accuracy per
watt carried

Adjust the bit-precision slider to observe the trade-off between edge model memory footprint, inference latency, and task accuracy.

Weight precision8-bit INT
16-bit (Lossless)8-bit (Default)2-bit (Edge minimum)
Task accuracy retention
Zero-shot benchmark score99.4%
Hardware impact
Model footprint712 MB
Per-step latency (Thor)21 ms
Memory bandwidth load50% of unquantized
Runtime guidance

Deployment default. No measurable regression on the field validation set.

Distribution

Available
separately

APEX is licensable to third-party roboticists, defense contractors, and industrial AGV/AMR manufacturers.

A-01

OEM SDK

C++ / Rust runtime libraries for ARM64 and x86 edge targets with ROS 2 bridging.

A-02

Model service

Pretrained weights for terrain identification, gait classification, and manipulation primitives.

A-03

Certification pack

ISO 13849 PLd and MIL-STD-810H compliance verification suites and test harnesses.

A-04

Fleet console

Telemetry dashboard, signed OTA deployment pipeline, and multi-robot operational monitor.