The humanoid robot industry is converging on a “big brain, small brain” architecture, with AI compute shifting from the cloud to the edge, and even to hands, feet, and other endpoints. DIGITIMES Intelligence predicts that Nvidia’s CUDA will keep it dominant in the robot “big brain” layer for now, but automotive chipmakers and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) vendors can still target the “small brain” and endpoint edge-compute market to break into the humanoid robot ecosystem.