Product profile
Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 Core Kit
Qualcomm Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 Core Kit is an embedded robotics development platform built around the QCS6490 processor, with edge AI, camera, display, conn...
Facts
- Company
- Qualcomm
- Product type
- component
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- edge_inference
- Website
- https://www.qualcomm.com/developer/hardware/rb3-gen-2-development-kit
About Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 Core Kit
Qualcomm Dragonwing RB3 Gen 2 Core Kit is an embedded robotics development platform built around the QCS6490 processor, with edge AI, camera, display, connectivity and expansion interfaces.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Edge AI kit
Core: RB3 Gen 2
Function: Vision compute
Audience: Developers
Specifications
- ai_compute_tops
- Up to 12 dense TOPS on the RB3 Gen 2 platform TOPS
- audio
- One digital microphone and two digital audio amplifiers; I2S, SoundWire and DMIC expansion
- board_standard
- 96Boards-compatible modular hardware design
- camera_expansion
- Two C-PHY/D-PHY 30-pin camera expansion ports on the interposer board ports
- interfaces
- USB, Ethernet, camera, display and GPIO expansion
- kit_contents
- Development board, 12 V supply, USB-C cable, mini speakers, setup guide and switch pick tool
- onboard_imu
- ICM-42688 onboard inertial measurement unit
- operating_systems
- Supports Qualcomm Linux, Android, Ubuntu and Windows
- processor
- Qualcomm QCS6490 processor
- wireless
- Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2
Operations
- Environment
- robotics, research_lab, industrial_sites
- Primary user
- robotics_developers, iot_developers, system_integrators
- Role
- edge_ai_development, computer_vision_development, robot_prototyping
- Interaction model
- embedded_development_kit
- Mobility class
- fixed_compute_board
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Qualcomm raises non-handset target around AI infrastructure expansion — 2026-06-25
- NEXCOM and Qualcomm collaborate on embodied-AI robotics platform — 2026-06-02
- Arduino announces VENTUNO Q powered by Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ8 Series — 2026-03-09
- Qualcomm and NEURA Robotics enter strategic collaboration for physical AI — 2026-03-09
- Qualcomm brings on-premises industrial AI and connectivity to AI factories — 2026-03-01
- Qualcomm introduces Dragonwing robotics and IoT platform portfolio — 2026-01-09
- Qualcomm introduces Dragonwing Q-7790 and Q-8750 processors for drones and industrial vision — 2026-01-05
- Qualcomm launches Dragonwing IQ-X Series industrial PC processors — 2025-11-13