Peridio is unveiling a new vision AI robot demonstration design at Embedded World North America, to show how embedded device manufacturers can rapidly develop an Nvidia Jetson board-based prototype using Peridio’s fully production-hardened Avocado OS.
Avocado OS is an off-the-shelf Linux distribution which – like mainstream Linux distros for PCs – is easy to work with during prototyping, but which is also optimized for use in volume production designs.
At Embedded World North America, booth 4044, Peridio is demonstrating a dual-arm robot that accepts a natural language input, uses a vision-language-action model to find and pick up the right item among a randomly scattered set of objects, and place it on a conveyor. An Advantech ICAM-540 with a Jetson NX module runs Roboflow and Solo Tech software for object detection. Triggered by a prompt, a Jetson AGX Orin board performing motion control enables the robot to pick up the selected object.
“What used to take months of rework now takes days. We built Avocado OS so teams can move fast and ship with confidence because the OS you prototype on should be the same one you trust in production,” said Bill Brock, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Peridio.
Both endpoints run Avocado OS, which provides the versioned, reproducible images required for volume production. It is backed by the Peridio software and services which enable the secure delivery of updates to a fleet of devices in the field.
Instead of porting from Ubuntu or Debian to a custom Yocto Project distro, teams can prototype on the same developer-friendly OS that they will ship in production units. Avocado OS captures the working R&D environment, locks dependencies, and simplifies OTA updates and fleet management. The OS is free, open-source, and packages the software stack into a reproducible production-ready platform that teams can deploy on Linux OS-based edge hardware. Engineering teams keep building on the tools they know, then ship with confidence when it is time to scale.
Key features of Avocado OS include immutable and deterministic runtimes, fault tolerance, modular update mechanisms, simplified secure boot implementation, full disk encryption, boot modes for manufacturing, recovery, and testing, live NFS-mounted extensions which allow code changes to be reflected instantly on target hardware without lengthy rebuilds or flashing cycles, and more.
Unlike traditional monolithic systems, Avocado OS, backed by the fleet management, security and maintenance capabilities of the Peridio platform, is built on a composable architecture that organises functionality into distinct layers. The core OS layer provides an immutable, secure foundation while extension layers enable the addition of functional modules without compromising system integrity.
Peridio launched Avocado OS in April 2025 to meet a growing need for a Linux distribution that enables physical AI teams to move quickly from a one-off lab setup to repeatable, secure deployments on production-ready edge hardware. This is an open-source project created in collaboration with the Linux Foundation. Peridio is an active member of the Linux Foundation and the Yocto Project. The company actively participates in technical working groups, contributing code to core projects to ensure that Avocado OS remains aligned with industry standards.
