NEPI partners with robotics competitions, university programs, and startup accelerators. Teams get the same platform used by defense contractors and maritime operators, with licensing built for programs.
Cohort teams building toward a commercial product on a fixed timeline.
Cohort teams get two years of enterprise NEPI licensing free, roughly $40,000 per team, plus source repo access and direct engineering support.
See the programStudent teams and educators working with the same tools professional engineers use.
NEPI provides the software platform for teams building remotely operated vehicles. Connect underwater cameras, sonars, and manipulators through NEPI's driver framework and control them through the browser-based interface.
See the programFIRST Robotics teams use NEPI to add edge AI capabilities to their competition robots. Object detection, tracking, and automated responses, all running on affordable NVIDIA Jetson hardware.
See the programMost educational robotics platforms are simplified versions of professional tools. Teams learn the basics, then relearn everything when they ship a product or enter the workforce. NEPI takes a different approach.
NEPI is the same source-available platform used by defense contractors, maritime companies, and industrial teams. Plug-and-play hardware integration and low-code automation tools make it workable for teams without deep software engineering backgrounds, while the full ROS 2 foundation gives advanced users room to go further.
The same capabilities professional teams use, applied to competition, capstone, and cohort projects.
Train and deploy AI models that identify objects, people, or conditions in real time from camera feeds.
Connect cameras, LiDAR, sonar, IMUs, and GPS through NEPI's plug-and-play driver framework.
Build event-driven automation that turns AI detections into actions such as alerts, data logging, and motor control.
View live sensor data, AI outputs, and system status from any device with a web browser.
Educational licensing with support is free for classroom and competition teams.
Accelerator cohort teams get enterprise licensing terms. See the individual program page for what a given cohort receives.
We work with robotics competitions, universities, accelerators, and STEM programs to make edge AI tools accessible to teams and startups.