The Company
A robotics startup specializing in AI-powered logistics automation redefines how factories manage material handling and quality inspection. With a team of seasoned industry experts, the company focuses on delivering turnkey robotic solutions that can handle real-world complexities on the factory floor. Their vertically integrated approach — from design to deployment — ensures complete control over the solution lifecycle, delivering high-quality, reliable systems directly to end users.
Challenge
- Needed to expedite time-to-market with a production-ready AI system
- Considered developer kits but lacked ruggedization and industrial-grade readiness
- Required support for GMSL 3D cameras used in parts inspection
- Budget sensitivity without compromising on compute performance
- Industrial reliability for 24/7 operation in harsh environments
Solution
Product: Premio JCO-6000-ORN Series – NVIDIA Jetson High Performance AI Edge Computer
- Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX for high-performance edge inference
- Onboard GMSL camera support for high-resolution industrial vision
- Fanless, DIN-rail-mountable chassis built for factory installations
- Modular EDGEBoost I/O for flexible sensor and device integration
- Out-of-Band (OOB) remote management for remote diagnostics
Benefits
- Shortened integration time with a pre-engineered, turnkey system
- Reduced development costs with a production-ready alternative to dev kits
- Technical support ensured a smooth onboarding and camera validation
Company Overview
This robotics startup is on a mission to redefine logistics automation by integrating advanced AI with robust robotics systems. Their focus is on material handling and inspection use cases that demand precision, speed, and continuous uptime. By vertically integrating their operations—from hardware design to deployment—they ensure every solution meets the highest standards in performance and reliability. The company’s AI solution is purpose-built for automated parts inspection directly on assembly lines, leveraging edge computing and high-resolution 3D vision to enable precise, real-time decision-making in industrial environments.
The Challenge
Expediting Time-to-Market
The customer was racing against the clock to commercialize its industrial robotics solution for factory inspections. Initial plans to build around an NVIDIA developer kit fell short—those platforms lacked the ruggedization and modularity required for real-world deployment. Engineering a custom housing and power solution from scratch would have delayed launch by months.
Achieving Compatibility with Industrial 3D Vision Cameras
The application hinged on reliable integration with GMSL 3D stereo cameras, critical for capturing high-resolution depth data in real time. However, many off-the-shelf systems lacked native support for this type of vision hardware. The customer needed a system that could connect and operate seamlessly with Stereolabs cameras right out of the box.
Balancing Cost Constraints with Rugged Performance
As a startup with finite resources, cost-efficiency was non-negotiable. While alternatives were considered, they either exceeded budget or lacked the rugged features needed for industrial automation. The customer sought a balance of affordability, industrial-grade reliability, and high-performance AI compute.
The Solution
Premio’s JCO-6000-ORN provided a rugged Edge AI platform purpose-built for factory floor automation.
Turnkey AI Edge System with Native Camera Support
Premio’s JCO-6000-ORN provided a ready-to-deploy solution with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin™ AGX module, delivering the GPU acceleration required for AI inference at the edge. NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module adopts a SOM (System-on-Module) design, combining CPU, GPU, and RAM on the same module, which is both space and power-efficient. It delivers a GPU workstation AI performance in a much smaller form factor, perfect for AI inference tasks in robotics vision.
JCO-6000-ORN supports up to 8 high-resolution GMSL cameras onboard, making it ideal for the customer’s depth-sensing vision tasks, and its fanless, DIN-rail-ready design enables easy integration within space-constrained factory control panels.
Scalable Connectivity with Modular I/O and Remote Management
To support evolving factory automation needs, the JCO-6000-ORN offered flexible modular I/O for industrial sensor integration. Premio's unique EDGEBoost I/O technology provides mix & match modularity tailored to customers' different needs. For example, it can support up to 8 USB3 or 8 GbE cameras to collect data in parts inspection.
Premio’s optional Out-of-Band (OOB) management feature accessed through 1 RJ45 enables remote diagnostics and system control, minimizing the need for on-site technical intervention, especially valuable in distributed or inaccessible deployment environments.
North American Support and Rapid Lead Times for Faster Integration
The customer benefited from Premio’s North America-based support team, which provided fast technical validation for camera compatibility and streamlined the purchasing process with short lead times. Premio’s value in pricing and responsiveness was critical in helping the customer meet their product launch window.
The Benefits
By choosing Premio’s rugged edge computer, the Robotics AI startup overcame time-to-market and hardware integration challenges with modular I/O, remote management, and vision camera support.
Localized Supply Chain Management
Premio is strategically located in City of Industry, California and has a dedicated supply chain team to expertly navigating through supply chain disruptions successfully. Being local to the machine vision provider leads to benefits such as decreased lead times and increased cost efficiency. As a result, Premio established a strong business relationship that enhanced the party's trust and delivery.
Stronger Partnership & Long-Term Support
Beyond hardware, the company benefited from Premio’s local engineering and sales support, ensuring shorter lead times, reliable supply chain management, and ongoing technical expertise.
Efficient Lead Time
In military deployments, hardware availability and delivery speed are critical factors in decision-making. Premio’s ISO 9001-certified supply chain and local production capabilities enabled short lead times, allowing the customer to rapidly deploy rugged computing solutions to meet urgent operational demands.
Conclusion
By choosing Premio’s JCO-6000-ORN, this robotics company was able to bring its AI-powered inspection solution to market faster—without compromising on performance, reliability, or industrial-grade requirements. Premio’s rugged edge AI computing platform not only met the startup’s demanding technical needs, but also provided the scalability and support needed to streamline future deployments across complex factory environments.