On September 23, local time, Qualcomm announced that it had reached an acquisition agreement with robotics software company PickNik, and that customary delivery conditions must still be met to complete the transaction. Picknik has maintained the open source robot operation framework MOVEIT for a long time. The framework is based on robot operating systems and is widely used in industrial automation, service robots, and physical AI. Qualcomm said that after the acquisition, MoveIt will continue to remain open source and support third-party hardware platforms while strengthening integration with Qualcomm's Dragonwing robot platform. The two sides also plan to combine MOVEit with the Arduino VENTUNO Q development board to lower the threshold for robot development.

Zhitongcaijing · 2d ago
On September 23, local time, Qualcomm announced that it had reached an acquisition agreement with robotics software company PickNik, and that customary delivery conditions must still be met to complete the transaction. Picknik has maintained the open source robot operation framework MOVEIT for a long time. The framework is based on robot operating systems and is widely used in industrial automation, service robots, and physical AI. Qualcomm said that after the acquisition, MoveIt will continue to remain open source and support third-party hardware platforms while strengthening integration with Qualcomm's Dragonwing robot platform. The two sides also plan to combine MOVEit with the Arduino VENTUNO Q development board to lower the threshold for robot development.