Shanghai, China — July 18th, 2026 — At the 2026 World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC), ThunderSoft officially launched AquaClaw for IoT, extending its AquaClaw Agent OS from intelligent vehicles to a broader range of AI terminals, including AI glasses, robotics, smart home devices, intelligent meeting systems, and industrial applications.
Building on the successful introduction of AquaClaw as an automotive AI agent foundation earlier this year, ThunderSoft is now evolving AquaClaw into a unified Agent OS for AI terminals, enabling edge devices to achieve a complete intelligent loop of perception, understanding, action, and governance. By bringing agentic AI closer to the physical world, AquaClaw helps transform devices from passive tools into intelligent companions capable of continuously understanding environments, executing tasks, and delivering personalized services.
From Cloud-Based Agents to Edge Intelligence: Bringing AI into the Physical World
As AI agents rapidly evolve from simple question-answering systems into autonomous task execution engines, deploying AI into real-world environments presents new challenges. Traditional cloud-centric AI architectures face limitations in latency, connectivity, cost, and data privacy, making them difficult to support real-time and highly interactive device experiences.
AquaClaw for IoT addresses these challenges through an edge-first architecture that enables AI agents to operate directly on devices while collaborating with cloud intelligence when needed. This approach delivers faster response, stronger autonomy, improved privacy protection, and more reliable execution across diverse AI terminal scenarios.
Unlike conventional AI assistants that focus primarily on conversation, AquaClaw is designed as a complete agent runtime foundation. It enables devices not only to understand user intent, but also to interact with sensors, applications, and hardware capabilities within a secure and controllable system environment.
A Unified Agent OS Built Around Perception, Understanding, Action, and Governance
At the core of AquaClaw for IoT is a comprehensive Agent architecture built around four essential capabilities:
Perception — Integrating multimodal inputs including voice, vision, screen information, device status, and spatial context, AquaClaw enables devices to continuously sense and understand their surroundings.
Understanding — Through local semantic intelligence, cloud-based reasoning, long-term memory, and knowledge integration, AquaClaw enables AI agents to understand complex tasks rather than simply respond to commands.
Action — By connecting with device capabilities, applications, and external tools, AquaClaw allows agents to transform user intentions into executable actions, moving AI from "knowing" to "doing."
Governance — Built-in identity authentication, capability management, approval mechanisms, data protection, and execution auditing ensure that every agent action remains secure, traceable, and controllable.
This architecture provides the foundation for deploying trustworthy AI agents across safety-sensitive and mission-critical scenarios.
Three Innovations Enabling Scalable AI Agent Deployment
To address the unique requirements of edge AI deployment, AquaClaw introduces three key innovations.
- Continuous Skill Evolution
AquaClaw enables frequently used capabilities to evolve into reusable local Skills. By transforming repeated tasks into optimized execution modules, the platform reduces unnecessary model calls, improves efficiency, and enables AI terminals to continuously evolve through real-world usage.
- Adaptive Fast and Slow Execution Paths
AquaClaw dynamically selects the optimal execution path based on task complexity. Lightweight and frequently used tasks can be completed locally for immediate response, while complex reasoning tasks can leverage cloud-based models. Sensitive operations can trigger approval workflows to ensure secure execution.
- Built-in Trust Governance
Unlike traditional security solutions added after deployment, AquaClaw integrates governance directly into the agent runtime. Through capability authorization, policy control, secure sandboxing, and execution receipts, every agent decision and action can be verified and audited.
Extending AquaClaw from Intelligent Vehicles to AI Terminals
AquaClaw has already demonstrated its capabilities in intelligent vehicle scenarios, where AI agents require real-time perception, contextual understanding, continuous memory, and secure access to vehicle functions. Powered by AquaClaw, next-generation intelligent vehicles can evolve from reactive interaction systems into proactive AI companions that understand user needs and coordinate vehicle services.
With AquaClaw for IoT, these agent capabilities are now expanding beyond vehicles into a wider AI terminal ecosystem.
For AI glasses, AquaClaw enables first-person perception, intelligent assistance, and privacy-preserving local processing.
For smart home and personal devices, it enables continuous services based on user preferences, memory, and contextual understanding.
For industrial and enterprise scenarios, it provides intelligent task execution, device collaboration, and secure workflow automation.
Through one unified Agent OS, developers and manufacturers can build differentiated AI experiences across multiple hardware categories.
Empowering Ecosystem Partners with Flexible Delivery Models
To accelerate industry adoption, ThunderSoft provides three delivery models based on AquaClaw:
- Edge Agent SDK — Providing hardware vendors with a complete edge AI runtime environment and development foundation.
- Industry Solutions — Delivering validated AI agent solutions for specific scenarios, helping enterprises and system integrators accelerate deployment.
- Skill Platform — Enabling developers and ecosystem partners to create, manage, distribute, and continuously improve reusable AI skills.
By lowering development barriers and enabling cross-device scalability, AquaClaw helps hardware vendors, solution providers, and developers bring AI-native products to market faster.
Building the Intelligent Foundation for the AI Terminal Era
With AquaClaw for IoT, ThunderSoft is accelerating the transition from intelligent vehicles to a broader AI terminal ecosystem.
Moving forward, ThunderSoft will continue advancing AquaClaw as a unified Agent OS platform, empowering vehicles, AI glasses, robotics, and other intelligent devices with the ability to perceive, understand, act, and evolve—bringing AI agents closer to the physical world and enabling a new era of intelligent computing.
About ThunderSoft
ThunderSoft is a global provider of AIOS products and technologies. Built around its AIOS platform and edge AI capabilities, ThunderSoft delivers intelligent operating system solutions for smart vehicles, AI terminals, robotics, and industry applications. Through deep ecosystem collaboration and continuous innovation, ThunderSoft enables partners worldwide to accelerate the transition toward an intelligent, connected future.
