Product releases, partnerships, press coverage, and company updates from the team building NEPI.
The Robot Report published a bylined article from Numurus founder and CEO Jason Seawall on why edge AI is following the same path the PC did. The hardware is here. What is missing is the software layer that makes it usable by more than embedded software experts. NEPI is that layer for smart systems.
Read the article →Robotics Tomorrow has published coverage of Numurus and the NEPI platform, exploring how robotics teams can skip months of embedded software engineering and add AI to their products in minutes.
Read the article →Numurus has partnered with the Oregon UAS Accelerator to support startups building autonomous and unmanned systems. This partnership gives startups access to NEPI as a foundation for integrating sensors, edge AI, and automation into their products. By reducing development friction, the collaboration helps companies prototype faster, iterate in real operating conditions, and bring intelligent, automated systems to market sooner.
Numurus is partnering with the MATE ROV 2026 Competition to help students work with the same edge AI and automation concepts being used in modern robotic systems. NEPI enables students to integrate cameras and sensors, run AI models directly on their ROVs, and introduce intelligent automation into their competition designs. This partnership helps prepare students for real-world engineering challenges while accelerating the adoption of AI-driven robotics in education.
NEPI is now available as a Docker container image, bringing the full NEPI runtime, hardware drivers, and AI framework integrations to laptops and NVIDIA Jetson devices with a single install. Teams can pull the container and start building edge AI applications in minutes.
Learn more →The article from A3 (Association for Advancing Automation), "Guide to AI Middleware," highlights the transformative potential of AI middleware in industrial automation. Numurus and its NEPI platform are featured as a key player in this space, offering a robust software toolset designed to accelerate the development of edge AI and robotic automation solutions.
Numurus announced it has joined NVIDIA Metropolis, a partner program focused on bringing AI capabilities to edge computing for industrial applications. Researchers and application solution providers spend up to 40% or more of their total software budget building and maintaining low-level software, drivers, and tools. NEPI addresses this gap by providing a complete edge AI platform that handles the infrastructure, letting teams focus on their applications.
Numurus announced NEPI, the first commercially available, source-available software that solves a critical AI technology gap by offering smart solution providers a complete edge AI development platform. In today's smart solution development landscape, many companies build the same low-level software as their competitors, creating a sea of disconnected software that provides little competitive advantage. NEPI provides the standardized infrastructure that lets teams focus on the unique 10% of their application.