Nuatara — Edge AI Inspection
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AI that runs where the cloud can't reach.

We train visual inspection models from photos of good parts only and deploy them on a €80 board beside your line — delivering a PASS or FAIL verdict in under one second, with no network call, ever.

AUROC 1.0
Detection accuracy on metal nut & bottle — MVTec AD benchmark, Oct 2026
120 ms
Verdict latency on €250 Edge2 Pro board with INT8 NPU
50 photos
Of good parts only — no defect examples, no annotation tool required
€80
Entry-level hardware cost — Khadas VIM3, fully functional for PoC

All numbers from benchmarks run in Munich, October 2026. Reproducible. Not marketing language.

The constraint we solve

Some AI cannot live in the cloud.

Four forces push inference onto the device. Wherever any one applies, the standard cloud-AI playbook stops working — and that is where Nuatara operates.

Latency

A reject arm fires in milliseconds. A cloud round-trip is already too late. 120ms on-device beats 300–2000ms cloud every time.

Sovereignty

EU AI Act, NIS2, data-localisation rules. Production images cannot leave the facility. Nuatara makes zero network calls at inference — by design.

Connectivity

Field installations, moving vehicles, remote sites. The network link is unreliable or absent. The system must run regardless.

Cost

Streaming video to a cloud inference server is billed per image, indefinitely. €80 hardware with a trained model on it costs nothing per inference, forever.

Why it stays broken

Nobody owns the whole line.

AI consultancies

Train models. Have never touched a sensor driver, constrained silicon, or an ARM deployment.

Camera & sensor vendors

Excellent hardware. No model training, no quantisation, no deployment pipeline.

Enterprise platforms

Built for customers with in-house ML engineers. Priced and paced for them too.

System integrators

Own the mechanics. Subcontract or skip the AI layer entirely.

The customer is left to integrate four vendors. That is where the months go.

The journey

Photograph. Diagnose. Prove.

Three steps from standing start to a working inspection system at your line. One team, one week, one measurable result.

Step 01 · Day 1–2

Photograph

Capture 50–200 images of good parts only. No defective examples needed. A phone camera works for a first test.

  • Any camera, controlled lighting
  • One part type per model
  • Half a day of your team's time
Step 02 · Day 3–4

Diagnose

We train a PatchCore anomaly model on your good-part images. No defect labels. Training takes 15–60 minutes on a laptop.

  • Nuatara trains and validates the model
  • Threshold tuned to your tolerance
  • AUROC report delivered in writing
Step 03 · Day 5

Prove

Model deployed on a €80–250 ARM board. Run it on your parts. See a PASS/FAIL verdict with heatmap showing exactly where the defect is.

  • 120ms per image on Edge2 Pro NPU
  • Heatmap overlay for localisation
  • Zero network calls, ever

Fixed-price pilot per deployment. No open-ended retainer.

How the engine is built

One team, from the camera to the kernel.

Five layers, one codebase. Swapping the backend is a config change. Swapping the source is what lets the same core handle vibration or thermal sensing later without a rewrite.

HardwareCPU · CUDA · Jetson · NPU
BackendONNX Runtime · TensorRT · RKNNLite
Engine corepreprocess · infer · score · verdict
Sourcecamera · file · sensor
Applicationverdict I/O · local UI · CLI
Product portfolio

One core. Sold as focused products.

Every offering reuses the same pipeline — fit the model to the silicon, make it run, keep it honest. What changes is the sensor, the model, and the buyer.

Horizon 1 · Available now
Nuatara Inspect
Defect detection that stops the line in real time. Trained on good-only images. AUROC 1.0 validated on MVTec AD.
Hardware from €80 · Training included in pilot
Feasibility Study
We photograph your parts, train the model, benchmark on hardware, and deliver a written AUROC + latency report with a go/no-go recommendation.
From €2,500 · 1–2 week engagement
Custom Pipeline Build
Full bespoke inspection system: trained model, tuned thresholds, hardware integration, live demo at your line. 30-day support window.
From €12,000 · 4–8 week engagement
Horizon 2 · In development
Nuatara Monitor
Anomaly score trending over shifts and batches. Catches process drift before it becomes a scrap event. Local dashboard, no cloud export required.
Q1 2027 · Design partners welcome
Field & Asset Inspection
Pipelines, poles, turbines — physical infrastructure inspection where connectivity is absent and data sovereignty is non-negotiable.
Q2 2027 · Partnerships open
Architecture Review
Already building edge AI in-house? We review your model, quantisation strategy, and inference pipeline. Written report with prioritised recommendations.
From €1,500 · Advisory engagement
Horizon 3 · Platform
Nuatara Engine SDK
Licensed to OEMs and robotics manufacturers who need edge inference capability without hiring an ML engineer year-round. Python + C++ bindings. Per-device, perpetual licence.
Q2–Q3 2027 · OEM enquiries welcome
Design Partner Programme
3–5 manufacturing or field-service companies to run Nuatara Inspect on real parts before GA. Hardware at cost. Direct roadmap input. Perpetual design-partner pricing.
Apply → hello@nuatara.ai
October 2026 · Munich

Real hardware. Real parts. Real numbers.

All results from benchmarks run on Khadas VIM3 and Edge2 Pro boards. MVTec AD is the standard industrial inspection benchmark. Every number here is reproducible.

Accuracy — MVTec AD

Metal nutAUROC 1.0000
BottleAUROC 1.0000
ScrewAUROC 0.9551
Good part score range0.33 – 0.43
Defect score range0.64 – 1.00
Defect labels requiredNone

Latency — Edge2 Pro (€250 · NPU)

NPU backbone (INT8)~39 ms
CPU nearest-neighbour search~82 ms
Total per image~120 ms
ArchitectureSplit: NPU + CPU
Network callsZero

Latency — VIM3 (€80 · CPU only)

Part classifier~138 ms
Anomaly scoring~786–993 ms
Total per image~924–1134 ms
Warm model (loaded once)✓

Training

AlgorithmPatchCore · ResNet18
Good images needed50–200
Training time (laptop)15–53 min
Memory bank4096 embeddings
Time to first result~1 week
Who we are

Born on Dussehra. Built in Munich.

Nuatara was founded in Munich in October 2026 — on Dussehra, the Indian festival that marks the victory of truth over deception. We build technology that brings truth to the factory floor.

The founding insight: the hardest part of industrial inspection is not the AI model — it is removing every barrier that prevents a factory from trying. No defect labelling. No cloud. No six-month project. No €50k budget. First result in one week.

The October 2026 PoC confirms the hypothesis: PatchCore on a €80 ARM board, trained on 50 good-part photos, achieves AUROC 1.0 on two of three categories tested. The INT8 NPU path on the €250 Edge2 Pro brings total latency to 120ms.

"विजयादशमी — the day good conquers evil. We chose this day deliberately. Edge AI for industrial inspection is, at its core, about bringing truth and light to the production process."

Data never leaves the building

Zero network calls at inference — a hard requirement, not a default that can be toggled off.

The constraint is the product

Running on a €80 board is not a compromise. Extreme hardware limits produce simpler, more robust systems.

Every claim is a testable number

AUROC 1.0, 120ms, 50 photos, one week. Numbers, not marketing language. Reproducible.

Munich · Founded October 2026

Early-stage. Focused. Looking for manufacturing design partners across DACH and Europe.

Put a camera on one part. Let us prove the number.

We are looking for design partners in manufacturing, energy, and logistics across Europe. One line, one detection task, one measurable result. One afternoon.

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Write directly: hello@nuatara.ai