Advantech to Showcase Edge AI and Physical AI Innovations at NVIDIA GTC 2026

Featuring robotics, medical AI, and industrial edge deployment powered by NVIDIA Jetson Thor

TAIPEI, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Advantech (TWSE: 2395), a global leader in IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms, announced it will participate in NVIDIA GTC 2026, taking place March 16–19 in San Jose, California. At Booth #1134 and Meeting Rooms #6077 and #6078, Advantech will showcase next-generation edge AI platforms and solutions powered by technologies from NVIDIA, including NVIDIA Jetson Thor and NVIDIA IGX Thor. The exhibit will highlight how physical AI and edge AI are enabling real-world deployment across robotics, medical systems, smart logistics, and intelligent retail environments. By integrating hardware platforms, AI development frameworks, and ecosystem partnerships, Advantech continues to help enterprises move efficiently from AI evaluation to scalable deployment at the edge.

Ween Niu, General Manager of Advantech North America, noted that as AI rapidly evolves, the industry is moving beyond cloud-based model training toward real-world, physical applications—often referred to as Physical AI. Advantech has long focused on edge computing and edge AI, building industrial-grade platforms designed for performance, reliability, and scalable deployment. At this year's GTC, Advantech will demonstrate its close collaboration within the NVIDIA ecosystem, combining advanced hardware, software frameworks, and industry-ready solutions to accelerate AI adoption in robotics, medical devices, and smart environments while enabling faster deployment of Physical AI across industries.

Advancing robotics perception and humanoid robotics development

For robotics applications, Advantech will present robotics-ready edge AI platforms designed for rapid integration of sensors and multi-camera systems. The ASR-A702 / AFE-A702 (built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor) works with Advantech Robotic Suite and NVIDIA Isaac ROS to support key perception capabilities such as object detection, distance estimation, pose tracking, and VSLAM.

To support the next generation of humanoid robotics, the MIC-742 (built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor) delivers up to 2,070 TFLOPS (FP4) AI performance and can be paired with the NVIDIA Holoscan Sensor Bridge to enable an ultra-low-latency sensor-to-inference pipeline for transformer and vision-language-action models. These capabilities demonstrate how edge AI platforms can accelerate robotics innovation and real-world deployment through ecosystem collaboration.

Real-time medical imaging AI enabling intelligent surgical system

In healthcare, Advantech will showcase the AIMB-294 medical AI board (built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor), capable of performing real-time surgical instrument anomaly detection, organ segmentation, and AR overlay while operating at only 130W and without additional GPU modules. Combined with advanced medical AI frameworks and Advantech edge AI software tools, the platform supports low-latency imaging pipelines and streamlined AI model deployment, improving overall device performance and reliability.

Advantech will also highlight the USM-500, a medical-grade platform powered by NVIDIA IGX optimized for advanced AI-powered medical applications. The platform enables real-time multimodal sensor fusion and edge AI processing for AI-assisted surgery, intraoperative imaging, endoscopic video analytics, and robotic surgical guidance, delivering hospital-grade reliability and performance.

Visual AI agents and video intelligence for smart warehouses and logistics

To address the growing demand for intelligent logistics and warehouse management, Advantech will present the AIR-075 (built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor), a visual AI platform designed to enable visual AI agents for safety monitoring and incident response, with 10GbE connectivity supporting high-bandwidth video streaming.

Advantech will also demonstrate the MIC-743 (built on NVIDIA Jetson Thor) running advanced video search and summarization capabilities that enable real-time vision analytics, natural-language queries, and rapid video summarization. These technologies help enterprises improve operational visibility, efficiency, and decision-making across logistics environments.

Edge-based generative AI powering smart retail experiences

For retail and service environments, Advantech will feature the DS-015 (built on NVIDIA Jetson Orin) edge AI system running generative AI models through Advantech Edge AI SDK. The platform enables on-device large language model (LLM) interactions without relying on cloud connectivity, making it suitable for kiosks, smart retail stores, digital signage, and industrial edge deployments. This approach allows organizations to enhance customer engagement while maintaining low latency, data privacy, and operational reliability.

Advantech North America invites industry partners and customers to visit Booth #1134 and Meeting Rooms #6077 and #6078 at NVIDIA GTC 2026 to explore how Edge AI and Physical AI technologies can accelerate digital transformation and unlock new opportunities for real-world AI applications.

About Advantech

Advantech is a global leader in IoT intelligent systems and embedded platforms, with the corporate vision of "Enabling an Intelligent Planet." Advantech North America, a subsidiary of Advantech Co., Ltd., is the company's largest subsidiary and drives regional business growth, customer engagement, and ecosystem development. To embrace the trends of edge computing and artificial intelligence, Advantech fully deploys its sector-driven strategy and focus on Edge Computing and Edge AI, targeting five key markets: Edge Intelligence Systems, Manufacturing, Energy and Utilities, iHealthcare, and iCity Services & iRetail. In the meantime, Advantech is enhancing its global presence and core competitiveness by integrating its Edge Computing hardware platform, the WISE-IoT software platform, and sector-specific Edge AI solutions with domain expertise. The integration will form an "Orchestration" model for seamless industrial chain connections, benefiting both our partners and clients. Advantech is also working with business partners to co-create business ecosystems that accelerate the goal of industrial intelligence. (www.advantech.com)

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Advantech to Showcase Edge AI and Physical AI Innovations at NVIDIA GTC 2026

GONZALES, Texas, March 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As the U.S. cattle herd falls to a 75-year low and beef prices climb to record highs, Texas ranchers are under growing pressure to protect every acre of usable pasture. Yet invasive brush continues to spread, and conventional control methods often prove too costly, too imprecise or too limited by terrain. Agricultural drones are changing that equation, offering a more practical way to deliver herbicide treatments in dense brush and hard-to-reach areas without damaging the soil or grass underneath.

When the Brush Takes Over

That challenge is creating growing demand for brush control specialists like Curtis Schramm, owner of Texas Agridrone Services. He operates in Gonzales County, a Texas cattle region where livestock accounts for 93 percent of agricultural sales and crop rows make up just 10 percent of farmland. There, brush encroachment is visible and relentless. According to Texas A&M research, a single adult mesquite tree can consume up to 20 gallons of water per day during peak growing season, while prickly pear density can increase 25 to 30 percent each year during prolonged drought. In a region that depends almost entirely on rainfall, that kind of pressure steadily shrinks the amount of usable pasture available to ranchers.

The traditional answers work only when the economics align. In Schramm's experience, a 29-acre brushy pasture is too small for a half-million-dollar ground rig to bother with. A helicopter can cover hundreds of acres an hour but won't spray precisely over a dense thicket. And shredding with a tractor makes things worse: it stresses the plants, accelerates regrowth, and leaves fields full of stumps that prevent other equipment from entering afterward.

"A lot of my work is a fix to poor management practices from decades, even lifetimes of ranchers and landowners mismanaging property," says Schramm, "Letting native brush and other invasive species come in and take over."

A Different Kind of Precision

Brush work comes with a different set of demands than open-field spraying. Schramm's jobs involve dense, irregularly shaped thickets, damaged terrain, and pastures laced with electrical lines. Although agricultural spray drones are built to handle a range of priorities, he knows that penetration and precision matter most for his work. "What good would a wide swath do me if it didn't have the force to push the chemical all the way down through the canopy?" he says.

He chose the XAG P150, starting operations in August 2025. The quad-rotor design generates a strong, concentrated downdraft, and paired with the RevoSpray System, it reaches a maximum flow rate of 7.9 gallons per minute (30 liters per minute), pushing herbicide uniformly through canopy layers to the understory below. When Schramm hovers over a dense mesquite stand, landowners expect the spray to drift down gently, like rain under a tree. What they see instead surprises them every time. "When the drone goes over, the plants swirl, the ground's blowing up in the dust, and the chemical reaches every bit of the plant, not just the soil. They're always impressed."

The drone's 4D imaging radar detects obstacles between 5 and 328 feet along the flight path (1.5 to 100 meters), enabling safe operation across the uneven, obstacle-heavy terrain Schramm navigates daily. Real-time 3D terrain mapping enables autonomous flight without a preloaded map, adjusting continuously to each new field's contours. "The way it quickly adjusts... it makes me laugh every time," he says. "That's incredible to me, because I'm thinking about all that math that has to compute to know what the speed, height, and all those variables to make a decision in a millisecond."

The P150's foldable design also lets Schramm load, launch, and manage a full day's operation alone. For a small-business owner in his first years of operation, working solo means lower overhead and more profit. It's also a practical necessity: his jobs are often on properties where larger equipment simply can't reach.

The results have been clear. His first job, a shredder-damaged pasture of mixed mesquite, prickly pear, and huisache, looked one month later like a war zone. "It killed everything but the grass," Schramm says, recalling the landowner calling him out to come see it.

In his first season, August through December 2025, he completed 682 acres of brushwork without losing a single client. For each of those ranchers, recovered pasture means more grass, more cattle weight, and more income — a chain of returns that begins with getting the brush out.

Land, Cattle, and Family

Schramm didn't arrive here through a straight line. He spent decades connected to the land, first through his family's poultry operation for Tyson Foods from 1977 to 2015, and before that through his grandfather, a county conservation resource manager for 31 years who taught young Curtis to identify grasses, understand invasive plants, and know when and how to treat them. "All those techniques I grew up learning turned out to be something I needed when I was in my late 40s and early 50s," he laughs. "Here I am doing this."

For Schramm, the work has always been about more than brush. "If you're in a drought, you need to feed your cattle as cheaply as possible," he says. "The quicker you can put weight on, the more money you can make." He's brought his refill cycle down to under 32 seconds: batteries swapped, tank refilled, drone back in the air in under a minute, because every minute on the ground is a minute not serving that chain. "The idea is to feed your land to feed your cattle to feed your family."

"It's my life now," he says. "When I wake up at 4 in the morning to go somewhere and do something with the drone, I'm super excited. It's been something that's filled my life, and for my family, very well."

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For Texas Ranchers Fighting Invasive Brush, XAG Drones Are Changing the Odds

For Texas Ranchers Fighting Invasive Brush, XAG Drones Are Changing the Odds