Unmanned Vehicles & Drones

Design, validate, and deploy unmanned systems and intelligent vehicles with a platform that scales from rapid prototyping to fleet production. Toradex’s Embedded Solutions and the Torizon software stack give you the performance, safety enablement, and lifecycle tooling you need for camera-heavy perception, sensor fusion, real‑time control, and remote fleet operations.

Why Toradex for Unmanned Vehicles

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Go to volume with reliability

Move from proof-of-concept to large-scale deployment with confidence. Toradex delivers proven industrial-grade platforms designed for long-term production.

AI and Vision Ready

Unlock advanced AI and computer vision with integrated NPUs, high-speed MIPI CSI-2 camera interfaces, ISPs, and VPUs optimized for demanding vision pipelines.

Functional Safety

Accelerate compliance with industrial safety standards leveraging our support for certified RTOSes and proven development tools. Heterogeneous multicore SoCs also enable partitioning of safety-critical functions for increased safety.

Security & remote operations

Securely manage and update devices at scale. Torizon Cloud enables over-the-air updates, remote monitoring, and streamlined fleet management. Built following automotive-grade standards for secure OTA.

Hear From Our Customers

iPEK: Crawler inspection with intuitive HMI

With the Apalis iMX8 SoM, iPEK achieved a responsive, reliable HMI for their field-ready control interface for sewer and pipeline inspection systems to help infrastructure owners to make the most of tight budgets and precious natural resources while complying with applicable regulations.

  • High-performance graphical HMI built with Qt
  • Pre-certified Wi-Fi module for lower risks
Tribecraft: Autonomous mowing & mulching robot

Scarabaeus, developed by Tribecraft, is a state-of-the-art autonomous mulching robot designed to enhance efficiency in agricultural operations. Leveraging Toradex’s Apalis iMX8, Scarabaeus delivers precise and lightweight vegetation management, reducing the need for herbicides and minimizing environmental impact.

  • Advanced Sensor Fusion for Localization Algorithm
  • Operation in extreme environments
iPEK: Crawler inspection with intuitive HMI

With the Apalis iMX8 SoM, iPEK achieved a responsive, reliable HMI for their field-ready control interface for sewer and pipeline inspection systems to help infrastructure owners to make the most of tight budgets and precious natural resources while complying with applicable regulations.

  • High-performance graphical HMI built with Qt
  • Pre-certified Wi-Fi module for lower risks
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Easy ROS Integration

Build and deploy ROS-based robotic systems faster with seamless integration on our embedded Linux OS, offering a reliable, containerized, and production-ready environment.

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  • Leverage ROS for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM)
  • Pre-built Docker containers for ROS and ROS 2
  • Integrated cameras and hardware accelerators
  • Easy OTA updates and lifecycle management

Hardware Solutions

Aquila AM69 / TDA4
  • Up to 32 TOPS AI
  • Dedicated vision accelerators
  • Multiple MIPI CSI‑2 interfaces
SMARC iMX95
  • Standardized SMARC form factor
  • Toradex quality and reliability
  • Secure over‑the‑air updates
Verdin iMX95
  • NPU and vision pipelines
  • High-bandwidth I/O
  • Functional-safety ready
Verdin iMX8M Plus
  • Entry-level NPU and ISP
  • Real-time Cortex-M7
  • Rich connectivity

Ivy Single Board Computer

To shorten your time to market and reduce risk, we offer integrated Single Board Computers, with fully integrated software allowing you to focus on your application.

  • Production ready and available in high volume
  • From 1x Cortex-A53 up to 6x Cortex-A55 performance, compatible with all Verdin module
  • Optimized for industrial and other harsh environments
  • Industrial interfaces, including RS-232, RS-485 and isolated I/O for your AGV

Bringing AI to the Edge

Beyond prototyping:
Scale to production with confidence and reliability

TensorFlow Lite

Toradex provides the hardware, tools, expertise and software ecosystem to help you build your next AI-enabled autonomous vehicles. Our platforms deliver reliable, production-grade edge AI, designed for industrial workloads, with an optimized operating systems instead of bloated desktop distros, and fully capable of 24/7 operation in harsh environments.

Whether you’re developing low-power UAVs or next-gen computer vision-ready AGVs, we will be your trusted partner and our products will enable you to go faster and further.

Software Solutions

Torizon is a Linux-based software platform for embedded systems that simplifies development and maintenance by providing a ready-to-use OS, secure over-the-air (OTA) updates, and device management tools.

Fully Managed OS - Focus on Your Application

Torizon OS is our recommended Linux Distro, it’s a fully managed operating system designed also for unmanned vehicles and drones, eliminating the need to spend valuable engineering time on OS development and maintenance, so you can focus on your core application.

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Real-Time and Safety Ready

Our platform is engineered to meet the demanding requirements of both real-time and safety-critical applications. With deterministic performance and low-latency response, it is ideal for use cases such as unmanned vehicles, robots and drones.

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10+ Years LTS Availability

We guarantee more than a decade of hardware and software availability. This long-term commitment ensures your unmanned vehicles and drones remain supported, secure, and up-to-date throughout their entire lifecycle.

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Upstream-First

We maintain close alignment with mainline Linux, ensuring long-term maintainability, security, and access to the latest features, without vendor lock-in or outdated forks.

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Real Time Made Easy:
Xenomai Patches for Linux and HMP Support

Xenomai and HMP can be integrated into our embedded Linux offering, providing flexible options for real-time control. Developers can leverage the robust Toradex ecosystem and choose between Xenomai’s real-time APIs or hard real-time execution via asymmetric multiprocessing in built-in Cortex-M cores, ideal for AGVs, and UAVs.

  • Deterministic, low-latency control for AGVs and UAVs
  • Seamless integration with Linux and containerized workflows
  • Industrial-grade hardware and long-term support
  • Expert guidance for migration, validation, and deployment

ISO 10218 Compliance with QNX and Toradex

Achieving ISO 10218 Compliance in Industrial Robotics with Toradex and QNX: Enhancing Safety and Performance

QNX and Toradex help you to comply with industrial safety standards such as ISO 10218. This international standard outlines the safety requirements for the design and integration of industrial robots, ensuring safe operation in environments where reliability is critical.

  • Proven, safety-certified RTOS trusted in mission-critical unmanned systems
  • Deterministic real-time performance for precise control and navigation
  • Scalable architecture, ideal for both compact drones and large autonomous vehicles
  • Leverage our partnership to accelerate your development and compliance with ISO 10218

EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) Compliance-Ready

The EU's Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) mandates strict cybersecurity for products sold in the EU, with severe penalties for Non-compliance up to more than €15 million. Toradex simplifies CRA compliance, as hardware and software are designed with the CRA's stringent requirements in mind, reducing your development time, risk, and cost.

Key Requirements:

  • Vulnerability Management

    CRA Requirement:

    Monitor for exploitable vulnerability and notify accordingly

    Vulnerability Management
    How Toradex Helps
    • Continuous vulnerability scans of Torizon OS releases
    • Human assessment of CVEs, triaged and classified. No need for a dedicated security team
    • We let you know when there's a new exploited vulnerability
  • Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

    CRA Requirement:

    Generate SBOMs in machine-readable format

    Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)
    How Toradex Helps
    • We release SBOM for all our builds:
      • SPDX format comprehensive SBOM
      • CycloneDX format actionable SBOM (SBOM + vulnerability analysis)
  • Secure Software Updates

    CRA Requirement:

    Address vulnerabilities through a secure update mechanism

    Secure Software Updates
    How Toradex Helps
    • Built-in reliable remote (OTA) and local update mechanism
    • Automotive-grade security to protect even against state-sponsored attacks
    • Full-stack updates, from Bootloader, to OS, application and even peripherals and external firmware
  • Device Security and Integrity

    CRA Requirement:

    Guarantee integrity of your software and of stored and transmitted data

    Device Security and Integrity
    How Toradex Helps
    • Built-in support for multiple defensive mechanisms:
      • Secure Boot (runtime protection)
      • Encryption at rest and in transit (data protection)
      • Secure Update System (install-time integrity protection)
      • Cryptographically attested software manifests (for reporting on corruption)
  • Security by Design

    CRA Requirement:

    Design your product and software limiting the attack surface

    Security by Design
    How Toradex Helps
    • Production-ready OS
    • Configuration hardening
    • Hardware-backed security features, fully implemented and integrated in software

Partner Network

Toradex offers a vast Partner Network. Our partner ecosystem significantly increase our offerings, helping you additional camera offerings, hardware design, and CV/AI application development, and can even do a complete solution for you!

Integrated Cameras

Together with our partners, we offer a comprehensive portfolio of cameras, whether you need a powerful device with fast framerate and built-in ISP, or low- resolution CSI camera, our partners can help you!

Hardware Accelerators

In some cases, it makes sense to add an external AI accelerator, such as a Hailo, Kinara, DeepX, or Google Coral to your design, even if you’re using a Toradex SoM that already provides built-in AI cores. By using this approach, you:

  • Decouple AI processing from SoC vendor stacks, leveraging an unified AI environment that can be ran across multiple hardware platforms
  • Add performance scalability to your design, being able to scale from 1 TOPS to more than 40 TOPS without changing your base hardware

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Common ROS/ROS 2 stacks run in containers on Torizon OS; real‑time components can be isolated to RT cores.

Toradex collaborates with safety‑focused partners to help align with industrial robotics standards. Your certification path depends on your robot’s safety concept and the selected RTOS/tooling.

Use Torizon Cloud for secure over‑the‑air updates, monitoring, and device management, from pilot to thousands of deployed robots.

Getting Started

Learn how to deploy AI inference and computer vision pipelines on Toradex SoMs using frameworks like TensorFlow Lite and OpenCV.

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Starter Kits

Here are some recommended product combinations to get you started. These combinations are fully customizable to your needs.
If you'd like help in selecting the best hardware for your project, please connect with us.

Starter Vision and Control Kit with NXP i.MX8M Plus

  • 5MP Camera Set, Dual-Lane MIPI CSI output
  • 10.1 inch Capacitive Touch Display, 1280x800, Quad-Lane MIPI DSI output
  • Up to four Cortex-A53 1.8 GHz processors
  • Cortex-M7 processor with speeds up to 800 MHz
  • Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
  • Image Signal Processor (ISP)
  • NXP i.MX 8M Plus applications processor
  • Dual Band 2.4/5 GHz 2x2 Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) + Bluetooth 5.3
  • Torizon IoT Platform: Linux OS Maintenance, Remote Software Updates & Device Management
  • Linux and other OS Support included

Next-Gen AI Kit with NXP i.MX 95

  • 5MP Camera Set, Dual-Lane MIPI CSI output
  • 10.1 inch Capacitive Touch Display, 1280x800, 8-bit DSI output
  • Up to six Cortex-A55 1.8 GHz processors
  • Cortex-M7 processor with speeds up to 800 MHz
  • Neural Processing Unit (NPU)
  • Image Signal Processor (ISP)
  • NXP i.MX 95 applications processor
  • Dual Band 2.4/5 GHz Dual band 1x1 Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax) + Bluetooth 5.2
  • Torizon IoT Platform: Linux OS Maintenance, Remote Software Updates & Device Management
  • Linux and other OS Support included

High-Performance Vision Kit with TI AM69A

  • CSI Camera - 5MP, Dual-Lane MIPI CSI output
  • 10.1 inch Capacitive Touch Display, 1280x800, Quad-Lane MIPI DSI output
  • Up to eight Cortex-72 2 GHz processors
  • Two Cortex-R4F processor with speeds up to 1 GHz
  • TI AM69X applications processor
  • 2.4/5/6 GHz Tri-band 2x2 Wi-Fi 7 (802.11be) + Bluetooth 5.3
  • Complete active thermal solution
  • Torizon IoT Platform: Linux OS Maintenance, Remote Software Updates & Device Management
  • Linux Support included
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