Well, yes but not only. There's only so much you can do with Pis and other SBCs that offer a CPU-centric compute solution. Robots are real-time systems and CPUs

Well, yes but not only. There's only so much you can do with Pis and other SBCs that offer a CPU-centric compute solution. Robots are real-time systems and CPUs don't excel at that. When optimizing dataflows for lower latencies and higher throughputs, you typically seek specialized compute architectures and that's wherein GPUs and FPGAs come in. That's what this work really enables.