Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.88
March 18, 2024
The NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform is tapping into the latest generative AI and advanced simulation technologies to accelerate AI-enabled robotics. At GTC 2024, NVIDIA announced Isaac Manipulator and Isaac Perceptor - a collection of foundation models, robotics tools and GPU-accelerated libraries. During Monday’s keynote, NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang demonstrated Project GR00T, a general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robot learning. Project GR00T uses various new tools from the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform to create AI for humanoid robots. “Building foundation models for general humanoid robots is one of the most exciting problems to solve in AI today,” Huang said.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.86
April 19, 2021
At its GPU Technology Conference, or GTC 2021, NVIDIA Corp. last week touted new processors, software, and partnerships. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company also announced Omniverse Enterprise, a realistic simulated environment that can be used for entertainment and developing robots, artificial intelligence, and autonomous vehicles. “Omniverse was made to create shared virtual 3D worlds,” stated Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, during his keynote address. “Ones not unlike the science fiction metaverse described by Neal Stephenson in his early 1990s novel Snow Crash.” “Omniverse is the underlying foundation for all our simulators, including the Isaac platform, and we've added…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.75
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 3.59
May 06, 2024
…software and AI robotics company at Alphabet, has integrated NVIDIA AI and Isaac platform technologies to advance the complex field of autonomous robotic manipulation. At Automate 2024 in Chicago, Intrinsic is spotlighting leaps in robotic grasping and industrial scalability assisted by foundation models enabled by NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator, unlocking new value in industrial automation with AI. Foundation models at heart of data relationships NVIDIA unveiled Isaac Manipulator at GTC in March. Isaac Manipulator is a collection of foundation models and modular GPU-accelerated libraries that help industrial automation companies build scalable and repeatable workflows for dynamic manipulation tasks by accelerating AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.59
June 01, 2023
This week at Computex 2023, NVIDIA mentioned Orbbec Inc. as a partner. Orbbec today announced that it has worked with NVIDIA and Microsoft to develop the Femto Mega RGB+Depth camera, a high-performance vision sensor for sectors such as robotics, industrial automation, and healthcare. “We are excited to announce that Orbbec is in the process of integrating the Femto Mega and other cameras with the ecosystem surrounding NVIDIA Omniverse, an open development platform for building and operating metaverse applications,” said the company in a release. “This move will enable customers using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a robotics simulation toolkit, to swiftly design…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.57
August 31, 2022
…Material Flow and Logistics, or Fraunhofer IML, are using NVIDIA Omniverse for applied research in logistics for fulfillment and manufacturing. They are also using NVIDIA Isaac Sim for simulation in robot design. Fraunhofer IML's goal is to ease the transition from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to faster-moving autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). This advancement in automation promises to significantly accelerate logistics, said the Dortmund, Germany-based institute. “We’re heading the research aspects for AMRs, and we’re looking at how we can go as fast and as safely as possible in logistics scenarios,” said Julian Eẞer, a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.44
May 29, 2023
At Computex in Taipei, Taiwan, NVIDIA Corp. announced several products for accelerated computing in the cloud and the growing ecosystem for supercomputing hardware, simulation software, and artificial intelligence. The company also announced the availability of its Isaac AMR platform for autonomous mobile robots, or AMRs, and discussed how the electronics industry is using its technology stack. Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, thanked Computex attendees for coming to see him in person for the first time in four years. He then described how computer hardware and software have changed since the 1964 IBM System 360 to a $1 trillion…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.39
September 20, 2022
At its fall GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, today, NVIDIA Corp. CEO Jensen Huang made a host of announcements. One of them was that the Isaac Sim robotics simulation platform is now available on the cloud. NVIDIA also said it has improved performance by 80 times in Jetson Orin Nano in comparison with its previous system-on-modules. In addition, the company released the Isaac Nova Orin configurable computing and sensor reference platform for autonomous mobile robot (AMR) developers and software vendors. NVIDIA offers developer options in the cloud Developers will have three ways to access Isaac Sim in the cloud, according…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.39
May 29, 2022
…in robotics. We also recently upgraded to the new NVIDIA Omniverse-powered NVIDIA Isaac Sim, which has bought a raft of significant improvements to the BenchBot platform. Whether robotics is your hobby, academic pursuit, or job, BenchBot along with NVIDIA Isaac Sim capabilities enables you to jump into the wonderful world of robotics with only a few lines of Python. In this post, we share how we created BenchBot, what it enables, where we plan to take it in the future, and where you can take it in your own work. Our goal is to give you the tools to start…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.38
March 14, 2023
NVIDIA Corp. will be putting on GTC, a global conference for developers of artificial intelligence, computer graphics, autonomous machines, and more. In advance of GTC, Robotics 24/7 caught up with Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager at NVIDIA. He discussed the accelerated computing pioneer's innovations in simulation, the economic outlook, and ways in which NVIDIA can help robotics developers. Isaac Sim already changing robot design, training What were some of NVIDIA's accomplishments of the past year that you're proudest of? Andrews: It was a great year for NVIDIA as AI and robotics continue to converge. We released important new technologies…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.33
July 21, 2023
…physics-based simulation tool, according to the company. It combines NVIDIA Isaac Sim, READY Robotics’ ForgeOS, and SCHUNK’s automation technologies. NVIDIA Isaac Sim is built on NVIDIA Omniverse and is a simulation platform used to develop, test, and deploy robotics applications using artificial intelligence. Its robust physics engine enables detailed, realistic simulations that closely emulate real-world conditions, said NVIDIA. The simulation will be based on physics-based technical product data from automation technologies such as grippers, said SCHUNK. This will allow for “true virtual commissioning of real-world automation projects,” it said. Simulating process automation with physics-based calculations will result in more accurate…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.15
January 19, 2023
…promise for multibillion-dollar industries. Soft Robotics Inc. is using NVIDIA Isaac Sim to close the simulation-to-reality gap in pick-and-place operations for packaged food. “We’re selling the hands, the eyes, and the brains of the picking solution,” said David Weatherwax, senior director of software engineering at Soft Robotics. Unlike other industries that have adopted robotics, the $8 trillion food market has been slow to develop robots to handle variable items in unstructured environments, said Bedford, Mass.-based Soft Robotics. Founded in 2013, the company recently secured $26 million in Series C funding from Tyson Ventures, Marel, and Johnsonville Ventures. Getting a grip…
