So we're here at the Toradex booth and this is one of the coolest things I've seen in a long time. It's self-balancing wheelchair. Hey! Hi, I'm Pascal. So what's your company? We're not a company yet. We're a student project from ETH Zurich and we're using the computer modules from Toradex to control the whole chair and we're in a stack climbing wheelchair. That's so cool. Hello, who are you? Hello, my name is Stefan Dubach. I'm also from Toradex and we are here at the embedded world presenting our latest news. We have new products like Collibri, I make six ULL with Wi-Fi this time. We have announcing our policy, I make eight and we also offering new carrier boards, extending for example compatible with Arduino and your boards are in here. We're ready. We'll allow the seat, this one. There's one board. Just one. Just one processor for everything. So what can you do? So we're balancing, so you're very agile, you can turn on the spot right and you don't have small wheels that got caught on some curves. Yeah. We can move up the stairs. No, you're not going to be able to go up the stairs here. The RV is secure. We use the Roper tracks which are very safe. Now the seat is always level, so we have a sensor which recognizes the stairs and then the seat is always leveling and we can go up with the brake. That's normal, it's no problem. It's really... It's normal, it's no problem. Yeah, it's really stable, it doesn't move. You can actually go quite scary, but it's still stable. So this is one of the goals of... This is one of the goals of your company, right? To enable amazing stuff? Yes, we're fully focusing actually on the computing solutions, but the cool thing is actually really things like that that you enable new products, new technologies. That's cool, you have a key change. Yes, absolutely. And I mean the whole project is sponsored. And Toradex is one of our sponsors, so that's... Yeah, we saw the remodels, they looked really cool, they approached them. Do you have the common sense of support? No, no, we have a room on university and coaching. Why is this not their priority for every handicaps? You have none of those, right? Yeah, that's why you want to make a startup out of it once we finish studies to bring this to market. How much do you think it's going to cost? Yeah, we cannot say this right now, but it should be comparable to other wheelchairs, like other power wheelchairs. It should not be much more expensive, because then it will also be core by insurance. Nice, yeah. Nick can... Any stare, you know, with a conventional lift that you usually have in departments, you're actually covering one chair. We're on the top. So we have these small wheels coming out here. So you don't have to see backwards there. Nice. And they can go even, up, down. It's not like the radius is not too small. And the transition is automatic, so I don't have to do anything. It's fully automatic. It's safe. Yeah, it's safe. Really? You're not going to get even lifted up. You can lift it up. So if you want to grab something from a shell, you're now in the better position. That's too amazing. That's too awesome. Let me see how I come back. So a Tornex is based in Switzerland, right? Yes. And not just watchers, not just chocolate, but also the coolest technology in the world. I always say Switzerland is a lot about innovation. We don't have a lot of resources except innovation. And that's why we love to support these guys. But can you help them to get this out sooner? Well, obviously, you know, there's a lot of regulations. There's a lot of regulations that you have to fulfill. But I think we'll do everything that they can actually get to market. But at the end of the day, we don't need regulation, I think. Is it just get it out? Whoa. How long is the battery life? It's about one day. So we estimate about 20 kilometers. And that's the first prototype. Because it's only on two wheels. Are you able to get further faster, stronger? We don't know yet. What we think is if you are in mud with another wheelchair, there is really a high force on the front wheel. And we don't have that. So we think if the roads are bad, we will be better. On the SOC that's on the Torrid X-Board, you're able to balance and everything? Or is that another car? No, it's all the same chip. All on the same chip. It's all on the same chip. The only thing that's external is like an app. It's just an Android app. It's really ugly at the moment. Only Android, right? Only Android. We don't want iOS. Okay, let's go over here. Let's go over here because maybe this is related to this development kit. Right? No, no. It's actually a different thing. That is a demo of balancing. Where is the device? Let me see where the device is. No problem. There is a remote control actually to control this. But it has self-balancing tech. Yes, it's actually in-burst pendulum. And you can demonstrate the capability of heterogeneous multi-core. So you have one thing, the balancing robot that is controlled by the M4. It's a real-time capable CPU. And the same chip you find actually. It's a bit of a twist. What is it? This is the IMX7. Yes. A heterogeneous system. And you have all this kind of support. Let's go around here. Let's check some of the other. We always try to stay up there. No need to control. You just go, just lean back. Yeah. It always tries to stay on the last position when I move the joystick. The next step is you're going to enable people to walk around, right? Yeah, we'll be. There are extra skeletons on the way, but I think it will still take some years. But this will be the next big step you are shooting. That's a segway principle. segway principle. Let's check over here. What's going on here in this corner? This is a bit more of our partner and micro. You see here a stereo camera-ovation system. That is looking at these signs. It's analyzing them online and the deck teams sign and it's controlling actually the car remotely. Whether it's speed, whether it's actually the turns. Is it running on an Nvidia? It's the Nvidia TK1. It's a good demo actually showing the capabilities of these things. Do you want to support newer Nvidia's also the X1, X2? Let's say we're working on it. We don't want to get secret information. Let's go around. Yep, we're here. Some of the carry boards are... No, these are carry boards from our partners. So, you know, we are really focusing on modules on the software and really doing that 100%. That's what we are doing well. But we cannot serve all different markets. That's why we engage the partner program. So, you see here from US, from Germany. There is even from Spain as well as again from US. We provide extensive support and ecosystem and all these cool engineers in Switzerland and the US. It's all distributed. We have a lot of people around the world. We are a president in Japan, China. We are in India, in three places. We are in Europe, Switzerland, Brazil, US. So, whenever people have questions, they send it in. They get served within 24 hours, whether it's in any time zone, in any language almost. And where do you find those cool engineers? Well, they are difficult to fight. But I think it's also cool to work for Toradex at the end. And it is cool to see such applications at the end, really helping these guys to get to market. And implementing the really cool ideas. Cool. And I see over there, you were just mentioning before, right? IMX-8 is coming. Yes. So, you will have IMX-8 and then other things we'll see. We'll have your carrier board system over here. Yeah. We're looking over here. Just check it. Okay. This is the... Because when you put some pressure... Yep, that's the... It actually can make sure you... Sorry. Maybe put that this way. Okay. This is the secret sauce of Toradex. This kind of stuff, right? Well, that's our main technology. But it's what you see is obviously only hardware. But you know, 90% of our engineering goes actually into software. And that's where the value added in the place. And customers trying out our technology, they get free support. Because I really think we really want to help the customer to get to market at the end. If he's not getting to market, there's no use actually starting in the future. And it's all about the long tail of ideas that people have and technology to enable new ideas. They've been... enabled new things. Yeah. Well, we haven't thought about such a wheelchair. Is there a climbing wheelchair? There's a lot of new technologies coming off. And the board's car is all over there. Yes, it's a bit expensive, but I think it's a cool technology. And then the AIOT stuff comes along. Security, there's a lot of new themes, topics that you have to get to solve actually. And we're providing the base technology for it. Which means hardware, hardware, software, and support.