At Embedded World North America, Peridio is showcasing a new vision AI robotics demo that highlights how embedded device makers can quickly build NVIDIA Jetson-based prototypes using Peridio’s production-ready Avocado OS.
Avocado OS is a Linux distribution designed for both easy prototyping and large-scale production. Unlike standard Linux distributions for PCs, it comes with Peridio’s tools for device management, updates, security, and maintenance, helping manufacturers bring products to market faster without months of extra rework.
At booth 4044 (Anaheim Convention Centre, 4–6 November 2025), Peridio is demonstrating a dual-arm robot that responds to natural language commands. Using a vision-language-action model, the robot identifies, picks up, and places the correct object from a scattered set onto a conveyor. An Advantech ICAM-540 with a Jetson NX module runs Roboflow and Solo Tech for object detection, while a Jetson AGX Orin board handles motion control.
Both devices run Avocado OS, providing reproducible, versioned images for production and enabling secure updates across fleets of deployed robots.
The demo highlights how production-ready software can power real-world physical AI applications, from industrial automation to logistics, with security, reliability and maintainability built in. Visitors can also learn from Peridio experts the features that make Avocado OS easy to work with during prototyping, as well as security-hardened, updateable and scalable for volume production.
‘What used to take months of rework now takes days,’ said Bill Brock, Chief Executive Officer and Co-founder of Peridio. ‘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.’
A Linux distro for fast deployment of physical AI at the edge
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.
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.
‘Most teams have to do six months of rework to bring a prototype to production if their prototype is based on a typical commercial Linux distro for PCs. What we allow is for companies to completely skip that step and take their working R&D setup to production typically in a week to two weeks,’ said Bill Brock.
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
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.
Avocado OS 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.
