Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.49
November 12, 2021
…its fall GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, this week, NVIDIA Corp. announced several new technologies intended to help robotics developers, including enhancements to the Omniverse simulation environment, the Jetson AGX Orin computer, integration with the Robot Operating System, and the NVIDIA DRIVE platform for autonomous vehicle development. For instance, Jetson AGX Orin features high-speed interfaces, faster memory bandwidth, and multimodal sensor support. This enables it to feed multiple concurrent artificial intelligence application pipelines, said NVIDIA. “As robotics and embedded computing transform manufacturing, healthcare, retail, transportation, smart cities, and other essential sectors of the economy, the demand for processing continues to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.90
November 04, 2021
…Reports World. Momenta has established partnerships with global automakers including SAIC Motor, GM, Toyota, and Mercedes-Benz, as well as NVIDIA and Tier 1 suppliers such as Bosch. The company added that it plans work closely with them to develop and deploy smart driving technology suitable for environments worldwide.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.23
October 23, 2021
…Intel Core and Xeon processor options with dual-slot, full-length NVIDIA RTX graphics for AI acceleration. Depending on the configuration, the system can also provide 3TB of Samsung 970 EVO Plus NVME M.2 SSDs, two 512GB hot-swappable 2.5-in. SSD SATA 6 Gb/s system drives, dual 40GbE QSFP+ connectivity, and six CAN channels. This is in addition to a standard I/O set including DP++, DVI-I, GbE, 8-channel Digital IO, and six USB ports, said ADLINK. “We are committed to building a comprehensive ecosystem for the C-V2X platform, which is key to the successful implementation and uptake of autonomous driving,” Speed explained. “ROS…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.40
October 21, 2021
…for autonomous robots. In conjunction with ROS World 2021, NVIDIA Corp. announced its latest efforts to deliver performant perception technologies to the Robot Operating System developer community. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said these initiatives will accelerate product development, improve performance, and simplify the task of incorporating computer vision and artificial intelligence functionality into ROS-based applications. NVIDIA claimed that it will provide the highest-performing, real-time stereo odometry system as a ROS package. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also noted that all NVIDIA inference deep neural networks (DNNs) will be available on NVIDIA GPU Cloud (NGC) as a ROS package with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.98
October 05, 2021
…an ability to analyze synthetic environments,” he said. “Using NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse, we could seamlessly import different environments from CAD tools like Trimble SketchUp. Generating perfectly labeled ground-truth synthetic data then becomes a straightforward exercise.” Office building viewed in Trimble SketchUp, a 3D modeling application. Source: NVIDIA To ensure that models work robustly, developers working on robotics and automation applications need diverse datasets that include all assets of the target environment. In case of indoors, the list might include assets such as partitions, staircases, doors, windows, and furniture. While these datasets can be constructed manually with real photographers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.17
October 04, 2021
…We now have access to more computing power (e.g., Nvidia GPUs, Omniverse, etc.), data, cloud-computing platforms (e.g., Amazon AWS), new hardware and advanced engineering. Many robotics startup companies are capitalizing on this “super evolution” of technology to build more intelligent and more capable machines. In parallel, there’s another phenomenon happening in the world: a “convergence of technologies.” It means that engineers are coming up with different silver bullets — engineering different algorithms, different hardware architectures, different methods, etc. — to solve the same fundamental problems. The Perl programming language motto, “there’s more than one way to do it,” perfectly captures…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.71
October 04, 2021
…uptime, safety, and operational efficiency, said the company. As NVIDIA DRIVE Orin becomes available, Kodia plans to use the supercomputing platform. With more than 250 TOPS (trillion operations per second) of compute performance, DRIVE Orin follows safety standards such as ISO 26262 ASIL-D. The system will provide the data and computing power to reliably make and implement decisions safely and securely, said Kodiak. In the interim, Kodiak will use the current-generation NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Pegasus to process the data from the cameras, allowing the autonomous system to perceive the surrounding environment. Kodiak Robotics sets self-driving goals To deploy commercially, a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.91
September 30, 2021
…Capital, Mint Ventures, Castor Ventures, Dream One Vision, and NVIDIA, joined the round. “It's not just medical device investors who are enthusiastic; tech investors are also interested now that there's clear evidence that we can add value in patient care,” said Kim. “This allows to really scale up. This funding clearly puts us in in a first-mover advantage, not just in laparoscopic surgery.” Activ Surgical is a resident member of MassRobotics, a collective dedicated to nurturing the Massachusetts robotics community. The company is looking to expand globally, starting with Europe. “We have filed the paperwork for CE Mark and expect…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.40
September 23, 2021
…with Toyota on technologies for high-definition mapping and with NVIDIA on autonomous parking. GM invests in safer, cleaner transport GM said it “is investing aggressively in a comprehensive and highly-integrated plan to lead the transformation to a more sustainable future, guided by its vision of a world with zero crashes, zero emissions, and zero congestion.” In June, the automaker announced that it is investing $35 billion in electric vehicle (EV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technology from 2020 to 2025. In China, GM is expanding its design and engineering facilities for EV and AV development GM is also increasing its capability…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.13
September 22, 2021
NVIDIA Corp. today announced that it is working with Open Robotics to improve ROS 2 performance on its Jetson platform for artificial intelligence at the edge and its GPU-based systems. The company said this initiative will enable robotics developers to more easily and quickly incorporate computer vision and machine learning functionality into systems based on the Robot Operating System (ROS). “We've been working closely with Open Robotics to bring a host of NVIDIA AI technologies to the ROS community,” said Murali Gopalakrishna, head of product management, autonomous machines, and general manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “We want to make it…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.17
September 20, 2021
…and transportation. ADLINK is a premier member of the Intel Internet of Things (IoT) Solutions Alliance, a partner of NVIDIA, and a contributor to standards initiatives such as Eclipse, OCP, OMG and ROS2 TSC.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.49
August 20, 2021
…announced strategic partnerships with industry leaders such as Sanmina, NVIDIA, TuSimple, and others.” AEye provides sensors for autonomous systems Founded in 2013, AEye said it provides adaptive lidar for vehicle autonomy, advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), and robotic vision applications. The Dublin, Calif.-based company's iDAR (Intelligent Detection and Ranging) system uses biomimicry and principles from automated targeting applications used by the military to scan the environment. iDAR focuses “on what matters most, enabling faster, more accurate, and more reliable perception,” claimed AEye. It added that iDAR is the only software-configurable lidar with integrated deterministic artificial intelligence, delivering industry-leading performance. The system…
