Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit

Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit is AMD development platform for Kria K26 SOMs. It is built for robotics and industrial applications, with high-performance interfaces and native ROS 2 support for roboticists and embedded developers.

Facts

  • Company: Advanced Micro Devices
  • Type: Dev Kit
  • Core: ROS 2 compute
  • Function: Compute
  • Audience: Developers
  • Status: Commercial
  • Website: https://www.amd.com/en/products/system-on-modules/kria/k26/kr260-robotics-starter-kit.html

About

About Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit

Kria KR260 is AMD's development kit for robotics and industrial applications built around the Kria K26 system-on-module. Its interfaces support cameras, networking and motor-control development, while FPGA logic and processor cores allow hardware-accelerated perception and control.

The kit is a prototyping platform with ROS 2 support. A production robot requires a final carrier, enclosure, software stack, safety design and application-specific integration.

Specifications

  • Device: Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC EV (XCK26)
  • Dimensions: 119 mm x 140 mm x 36 mm
  • Ddr Memory: 4 GB DDR4
  • Ethernet: 4x 10/100/1000 Mb/s RJ45; 1x SFP+ cage
  • Usb: 4x USB 3.0/2.0 interfaces
  • Video: SLVS-EC Gen2 x2 lane interface; DisplayPort 1.2a output
  • Ros Support: Native ROS 2 support
  • Msrp: $349.00 MSRP

Market context

AMD Kria robotics starter kit for ROS 2, industrial vision and adaptive-compute robotics development.

  • Target environment: Robotics labs, industrial automation teams, machine-vision developers and adaptive-compute prototyping
  • Workflow context: ROS 2 development, sensor/network connectivity, industrial vision and hardware-accelerated robot workloads
  • Customer context: Teams exploring Kria K26 SOMs or FPGA/adaptive acceleration before committing to a production carrier design.

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Research

  • YANA: Bridging the Neuromorphic Simulation-to-Hardware Gap - 2026-04-03 - Research Publication - The researchers implement YANA on a Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit and connect its FPGA accelerator to a supporting software stack. A single core uses 740 LUTs, 918 registers, seven BRAMs and 24 URAMs while supporting up… - source: arxiv.org
  • 2022 Hardware Acceleration Report in Robotics - 2022-10-14 - Research Publication - The report combines a robotics-community survey with a hardware benchmarking phase focused on accelerated ROS 2 workloads. Its perception graph compares CPU-plus-FPGA execution on KR260 with Jetson Nano and Jetson AGX… - source: accelerationrobotics.com

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