Sensors & Hardware
How SBCs Work and Key Products — Raspberry Pi 5, Jetson, Coral
We compare the embedded computers that serve as a robot's "brain" across three design philosophies — the general-purpose SoC of the Raspberry Pi 5, the GPU-integrated AI computer of NVIDIA Jetson Orin, and the dedicated ASIC of Google Coral. From what the TOPS/W efficiency metric actually means, to why the newbot project chose a general-purpose SoC, to the real 2026 story of an AI-datacenter DRAM crunch hitting the hobbyist SBC market.