At embedded world 2026, we asked more than 100 engineers a simple question: what’s actually keeping you up at night?
The answers, drawn from a representative cross-section of professionals at the show, paint a picture of an industry navigating genuine tension – between ambition and constraint, between the promise of new technology and the grind of getting software to work.
- ~20% cited development complexity as their primary challenge
- ~14% are focused on AI or Edge AI as a key design area
- ~33% rank reliability as the single most important factor in component selection
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