NXP Semiconductors and GE HealthCare have announced a collaboration to advance edge AI solutions in acute care, combining NXP’s expertise in secure, high-performance edge processing with GE HealthCare’s experience in medical technology innovation. The partnership aims to enhance clinician workflows by providing fast, reliable, and actionable insights directly on medical devices.
The collaboration focuses on two initial concepts, showcased at CES 2026, designed for operating rooms and neonatal intensive care units (NICU). The first concept integrates edge AI into anesthesia delivery, enabling anesthesiologists to interact with equipment through real-time voice commands. This hands-free system is intended to reduce cognitive load, minimize alarm fatigue, and support clinicians in managing dynamic, high-pressure environments.
The second concept targets neonatal care by using intelligent, on-device monitoring to detect infant activity, identify objects in the crib, and monitor positioning. The AI processes all data locally with models powered by NXP’s eIQ AI Toolkit, ensuring privacy and security by keeping images on-device. Alerts are generated only when necessary to assist care teams in maintaining infant safety and comfort.
Both concepts are built on GE HealthCare’s Responsible AI principles, emphasizing safety, privacy, transparency, and fairness. The solutions leverage NXP’s application processors with integrated neural processing units (NPUs) and standalone NPUs, supported by edge AI software enablement from the eIQ AI Toolkit.
This partnership demonstrates the potential of edge AI to provide low-latency, resilient, and secure intelligence in critical care settings, supporting clinicians with actionable insights while complementing cloud-based AI solutions. The two concepts will be presented at CES 2026 in NXP’s Pavilion.
