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Qualcomm agrees to buy the company behind MoveIt in the Qualcomm PickNik deal, with no price stated
Qualcomm Technologies agreed on September 23, 2026 to acquire PickNik Inc., which leads the open-source MoveIt software. The release states no price, and we have not tested the software.
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Intrinsic releases Intrinsic Core as open source under Apache 2.0, with a reference design for CNC machine tending
Intrinsic, a group inside Google, released parts of its robot software as open source on September 22, 2026, with a reference design for tending CNC machines. We have not run it, and its own files disagree on which Ubuntu it needs.
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Arduino releases the Arduino VENTUNO Q robotics board, and its own pages disagree on its power input
Arduino, a Qualcomm subsidiary, announced its VENTUNO Q board for robots and edge AI on August 25, 2026. Its store page and its datasheet disagree on the power input, and we have not tested the board.