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# Agents Have a Perception Problem


- **Event:** World Congress 2026 North America

## Description

Why the next generation of agentic AI needs senses.

Agents can read the web, write code, and call tools like APIs and CLIs, but they can't see a factory floor or hear a failing motor. Edge AI closes that gap: small, specialist models that turn messy real-world signals into structured events agents can act on. This talk lays out the sensor-to-agent architecture, shares lessons from real deployments, and shows where the interesting problems live once agents get eyes, ears, and hands.

## Speaker

### [Ivan Sekyonda](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/@ivan-sekyonda)

Developer Relations Engineer at Edge Impulse


## Related talks at this congress

- [Closing the Visibility Gap: Lessons from Safety Critical Agentic Systems](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1408-closing-the) — Vivek Pandit
- [Edge AI: Running Agentic Intelligence Where Internet Can't Reach](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1805-edge-ai-running) — Nitin Eusebius
- [When Agents Became Users: Rearchitecting Identity and Permissions for AI at Scale](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1713-when-agents-became) — Yoav Gal, Dor Cohen
- [Your Agents Need Observability Before They Need Better Models](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/events/world-congress-2026-north-america/sessions/1825-your-agents-need) — Julia Furst Morgado

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