Tekh is seeking innovative hardware partners to develop a new class of low Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C) computing platform capable of supporting useful AI inference at the edge. 
The challenge will explore how far AI hardware can be reduced in complexity, power consumption and cost while still delivering sufficient performance for real world applications. The successful solution will support Tekh's research into affordable, scalable Edge AI and has the potential to enable new applications where the cost, power requirements or computational overhead of existing AI hardware currently limits deployment. 
Selected solution provider(s) will work with Tekh to develop and evaluate prototype hardware, with the potential for further development and commercial exploitation following successful trials. 

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Tekh is a UK based research and development company specialising in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and data driven technologies, with significant experience developing AI capabilities for constrained and operational environments.
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Increasingly capable AI models can provide valuable functionality at the edge, but the hardware required to run them can introduce significant size, weight, power and cost (SWaP-C) constraints. This can limit where AI can be deployed and can make widespread deployment economically or operationally impractical.
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This is particularly relevant to Defence, where there is growing value in deploying capability across larger numbers of smaller, lower cost and potentially unmanned&nbsp;platforms. In these applications, the objective is not necessarily to maximise AI performance. Instead, sufficient intelligence needs to be delivered using the minimum practical compute resource, power and cost.
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Tekh is therefore seeking to investigate how far Edge AI hardware can be reduced while retaining useful inference capability. This requires specialist hardware design and manufacturing expertise alongside Tekh's existing AI research capability, enabling the relationship between model performance, compute, power, physical constraints and cost to be explored experimentally.
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Background

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Tekh is seeking a hardware development partner to design and prototype a series of low Size, Weight, Power and Cost (SWaP-C) computing hardware platforms specifically suited to Edge AI inference.
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The challenge is to determine how far the computational capability, physical footprint, power consumption and cost of Edge AI hardware can be reduced while still providing sufficient AI performance to deliver useful operational capability.
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Rather than maximising computational performance, the objective is to develop a range of progressively constrained hardware platforms that enable the relationship between compute capability, architecture, size, weight, power and cost to be explored. The resulting hardware will provide Tekh with an experimental platform through which different AI approaches can subsequently be deployed, evaluated and compared.
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The successful solution provider will work collaboratively with Tekh to develop and prototype the hardware platforms. Tekh will undertake the subsequent AI experimentation and evaluation, using the resulting hardware to investigate the minimum practical compute required for different Edge AI applications.
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The Challenge

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The solution should provide a series of prototype Edge AI compute boards spanning a range of computational capability, power consumption, physical size and cost.
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The purpose of the board series is to allow Tekh to deploy and evaluate different AI algorithms across progressively constrained hardware, enabling us to determine the minimum level of compute required to deliver acceptable inference performance for a given task.
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The solution should therefore:
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Provide multiple board variants rather than a single fixed design
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Offer a deliberate progression in compute capability across the board series
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Enable deployment of different AI models and inference workloads across the range
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Explore different compute architectures where appropriate, recognising that dedicated GPU or AI acceleration may not be required for all workloads
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Avoid assuming that greater computational capability or dedicated AI acceleration necessarily represents a better solution
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Allow meaningful comparison of inference performance, power consumption, physical footprint and cost between board variants
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Use a consistent software and deployment approach wherever practical to support comparison between hardware configurations
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Support repeatable experimentation and benchmarking
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Be suitable for integration into constrained edge platforms
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Be capable of further iteration as testing identifies useful performance thresholds or gaps between board variants
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The board series should enable Tekh to determine not only how little computational capability is required, but also what type of compute is appropriate for different classes of AI workload.
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Functional Requirements

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The solution should:
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Use only readily available commodity components, with consideration given to component cost, availability, supply chain resilience and potential for manufacture at scale
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Provide a range of computational capabilities across the proposed board series, enabling progressively more constrained AI workloads to be investigated
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Include variation in compute architecture across the board family where appropriate. This may include CPU only configurations as well as boards incorporating GPUs, NPUs, FPGAs or other specialist acceleration
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Include sufficient variation to allow Tekh to understand when dedicated acceleration becomes necessary, and when a lower capability architecture can still provide acceptable inference performance
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Support the deployment and execution of AI inference workloads supplied by Tekh
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Provide sufficient memory and storage for the intended workload of each board variant, while avoiding unnecessary capacity that increases cost, size, weight or power consumption
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Include power monitoring, or an equivalent integrated measurement capability, that allows power consumption to be recorded during representative AI workloads
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Where practical, support measurement of both overall board power consumption and major compute subsystems to allow meaningful comparison between different architectures and workloads
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Enable power measurements to be captured alongside inference performance, allowing performance per watt and energy consumption per inference to be evaluated
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Provide appropriate interfaces for integration with sensors, communications systems and other edge platform components
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Support repeatable benchmarking across the board series
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Where practical, maintain sufficient commonality between board variants to simplify software deployment, reduce development cost and allow meaningful comparison of results
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Make pragmatic use of common board designs, interchangeable components, compute modules or other approaches where these allow a useful range of experimental configurations to be produced within the available development budget
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Avoid unnecessary components, interfaces or capabilities that increase size, weight, power consumption or cost without contributing to the intended workload
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Be designed with future manufacture, reproducibility and scaling in mind rather than solely as a laboratory prototype
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The objective is not to identify a single preferred processor architecture. The board series should allow Tekh to experimentally determine the relationship between AI workload, compute architecture, inference performance, size, weight, power consumption and cost.
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Technical Requirements

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The solution should:
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Be suitable for operation as an Edge AI compute platform without reliance on cloud based processing or continuous external connectivity
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Be capable of operating from standard, readily available power supplies using standard power connectors
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Be designed with future battery powered operation in mind, including consideration of supply voltage, power efficiency and power management
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Avoid requiring unusual or specialist external power infrastructure for normal operation and testing
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Support operation under sustained AI inference workloads for sufficient periods to allow meaningful performance and power characterisation
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Allow power consumption, temperature and other relevant operating characteristics to be monitored during testing
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Be sufficiently compact and lightweight to support integration and experimentation on representative small edge platforms
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Be robust enough for laboratory testing and representative field trials
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Full environmental or military qualification is not required as part of this challenge. However, the design should take account of the potential for future operation in constrained environments where size, weight, available power, thermal management and connectivity may be limited.
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The ultimate aim is to enable deployment on battery powered edge platforms. While battery integration itself is not required within this challenge, the proposed hardware should not introduce design choices that would unnecessarily constrain future battery powered use.
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Operating Conditions

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The following are outside the scope of this challenge:
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Development of a single high performance AI compute board without a range of lower capability alternatives for comparison
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Development of AI models or algorithms. Tekh will provide representative AI workloads for deployment and evaluation
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Solutions that require cloud based processing or continuous external connectivity to perform AI inference
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Development of batteries, battery management systems or bespoke power supplies. Future battery operation should be considered within the board design, but battery development is not required
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Full military, environmental or regulatory qualification of the prototype hardware
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Development of complete autonomous platforms, vehicles, sensor systems or communications systems
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Optimisation for a single application or AI workload at the expense of the wider experimental purpose of the board series
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Solutions dependent on highly specialised or difficult to source components where this would prevent realistic future manufacture or undermine the low cost objective
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Production scale manufacture during the challenge
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The challenge is focused on developing a practical series of experimental Edge AI compute boards that allows the relationship between AI performance, compute architecture, size, weight, power and cost to be investigated.
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Out of Scope

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The longer term objective is to achieve a range of low cost Edge AI boards that can be manufactured and deployed at scale.
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There is no single target unit price because the board family is expected to span different levels of computational capability. However, cost should be treated as a primary design constraint, alongside size, weight and power.
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Applicants should consider realistic production pricing for each board variant and demonstrate how unit cost could reduce with manufacture at greater volumes. The ambition is to enable future procurement in meaningful quantities without the cost of the compute hardware becoming the dominant constraint on deployment.
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Cost Requirements

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The successful applicant will have the opportunity to work directly with Tekh to develop and manufacture a new family of low SWaP C Edge AI compute boards.
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The resulting boards will be evaluated by Tekh using representative AI workloads to establish their performance across different compute architectures and capability levels. Successful designs may provide the basis for continued collaboration, further development and future procurement as Tekh develops and deploys Edge AI solutions.
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The initial opportunity is driven by Defence applications where size, weight, power and cost can significantly constrain the deployment of AI at the edge. However, the underlying requirement is not Defence specific. Affordable, power efficient Edge AI hardware has potential application across sectors including agriculture, manufacturing, infrastructure, robotics and remote sensing.
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The longer term opportunity is to establish a scalable hardware platform and supply relationship supporting multiple Edge AI applications, rather than development of a single board for a single use case.
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Rewards & Market Opportunity

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<li>Challenge launch: 5th October 2026</li>
<li>Deadline for applications: Friday 6th November 2026</li>
<li>Review of applicants: Monday 9th &ndash; Friday 13th November 2026</li>
<li>Selection and notification of finalists: Friday 13th &ndash; Tuesday 17th November 2026</li>
<li>Pitch Day: Wednesday 25th November - Wednesday &nbsp;3rd December 2026</li>
<li>Confirm selected solution provider: By Friday 4th December 2026</li>
<li>Submission to Innovation Funding Service (IFS): December 2026</li>
<li>Project length: 3-months. (Starting by 1st March 2027 and complete no later than 31st May 2027)</li>
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Timescales

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Entrants to this competition must be:
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<li>Established businesses, academic institutions, start-ups, SMEs, or individual entrepreneurs</li>
<li>UK based or have the intention to set up a UK base</li>
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Your project must:
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<li>Have a grant funding request up to &pound;60,000 (eligible costs only, see below).</li>
<li>Start 1st March 2027 and complete by 31st May 2027</li>
<li>Carry out its project work in the UK.</li>
<li>Intend to exploit the results from or in the UK.</li>
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Applications will be assessed on:
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<li>Relevance to the defined challenge</li>
<li>Benefit of implementation</li>
<li>Feasibility/economic viability</li>
<li>Innovative nature</li>
<li>Ability to launch in line with expected timescales</li>
<li>Credibility of applicant company</li>
<li>Coherence of the proposed business model</li>
<li>Development potential</li>
<li>Maturity of the solution</li>
<li>Suitability for the intended geographic market</li>
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If selected through this competition, you will be invited to apply for up to &pound;60,000 grant funding through the Innovation Funding Service (IFS). Applicants will need to upload the following documents to IFS once notified:
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<li>Project plan</li>
<li>Project costing</li>
<li>Minimal Financial Assistance (and de minimis where applicable) declaration (details can be found <a href="https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk/guidance-for-applicants/general-guidance/funding-rules/">here</a>)</li>
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Minimal Financial Assistance:
Grant funding in this competition is awarded as Minimal Financial assistance (MFA). This allows public bodies to award up to &pound;315,000 to an enterprise in a 3-year rolling financial period. If your application is successful and you are invited to apply for grant funding you will be asked to declare previous funding received by you. This will form part of the financial checks ahead of Innovate UK making a formal grant offer.
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Eligibility & Assessment Criteria

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Any commercial deployment of a transferred solution or newly developed solution, through licensing, joint venture, partnership, or direct investment, will be subject to the commercial agreement between the solution provider(s) and challenge holder.&nbsp;
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Where necessary, a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) may be signed to uphold confidentiality in the engagement between the solution provider(s) and challenge holder. (This would be expected to be after company selection, it is suggested that details of IP be not disclosed, focus on the outcomes of the technology proposed).&nbsp;
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Innovate UK and Innovate UK Business Connect do not take any share of IP ownership or enter commercial ventures through the iX programme.
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IP & Potential Commercial Route

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Additionally, the following documents must be attached for your application to be considered:&nbsp;
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Project costings &ndash; only eligible costs will be funded, please read the Innovate UK <a class="Hyperlink SCXW243875924 BCX0" href="https://www.ukri.org/councils/innovate-uk/guidance-for-applicants/costs-we-fund/costs-guidance-for-non-academic-organisations/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Costs guidance</a> for further information
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We recommend that you complete the application form in Google Chrome as other browsers may have compatibility issues. The application form does not need to be completed in one session and can be saved for future edits. Please ensure that you toggle &ldquo;Stage Complete&rdquo; for each section before submission. Note that you will no longer be able to edit your application once you have clicked &ldquo;Submit Idea&rdquo; at the bottom of the Summary page.
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Please consider the level of detail you share in your submission to ensure it aligns with your own internal confidentiality or disclosure policies.
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A selected panel of assessors will review and score your application. The panel of assessors will meet and agree a consensus score. Successful solutions will be selected by the challenge holder. Success will be based upon total consensus scores, a portfolio approach and capacity within the challenge holder&rsquo;s organisation to carry out the projects.
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