Why Embedded Databases Are the Missing Piece in AI Robotics

Dev.to AI
Computer Vision Robotics AI Hardware AI Business

When we think about AI infrastructure, we picture massive GPU clusters, cloud databases, and API endpoints. But there's a blind spot that's becoming increasingly critical: what happens when AI leaves the data center and enters the physical world? The Edge AI Storage Problem Robots, drones, autonomous vehicles, and IoT devices generate massive amounts of multimodal data every second - camera frames, LiDAR point clouds, IMU readings, audio streams.