Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.60
August 10, 2021
NVIDIA Corp. today announced a major expansion of its Omniverse simulation and collaboration platform that includes new integrations with Blender and Adobe to open it to millions more developers and users. NVIDIA's Isaac Sim engine, which is built on Omniverse, can be used to create digital twins for training a wide range of robots. The open-source Blender 3D animation tool will now have Universal Scene Description (USD) support, enabling artists to access Omniverse production pipelines. Adobe is collaborating with NVIDIA on a Substance 3D plugin that will bring Substance Material support to Omniverse, unlocking new material editing capabilities for Omniverse…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.46
August 01, 2021
…said its technologies, which include software available on the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform, can accelerate the deployment of autonomous vehicles and improve their uptime, safety, and cybersecurity. Ottopia said its universal teleoperation platform enables a human operator to monitor and control any type of vehicle from up to thousands of miles away. The startup has partnered with several technology companies and is targeting the automotive, last mile, freight, and logistics sectors. RVA refers to a human operator providing remote assistance to autonomous vehicles when they're navigating unusual scenarios or edge cases, said Ottopia. The operator has the ability to direct…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.69
July 30, 2021
…sprayers, in the U.S. The company has also joined NVIDIA's Inception AI incubator program. In addition, it plans to begin sales in Brazil and Argentina by late this year or early in 2022. “This summer, because of COVID-19, we're planning to arrange online streams from the field in different languages to show how our robots actually work,” said Emelyanov. A vision of future farming Not only is technology changing how farmers manage crops; it's also changing the nature of the business, according to Emelyanov. “The farmer used to own his land and his machines, and he took on all the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.85
July 13, 2021
…2021 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS), researchers from NVIDIA Corp. and the University of Southern California presented DiSECt, which they described as the first differentiable simulator for cutting soft materials. The researchers said DiSECt can accurately predict the forces acting on a knife as it presses and slices through natural soft materials, such as fruits and vegetables. The work was nominated for a Best Paper Award at RSS 2021. The simulator augments the Finite Element Method (FEM) with a continuous contact model based on signed distance fields (SDF), as well as a continuous damage model that inserts springs on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.33
July 08, 2021
…vehicles], and UUVs [unmanned underwater vehicles].” “The motherboard supports NVIDIA Jetson and STM332 MCU [microcontroller units] for real-time control and I/O,” said Cross. “For example, to upgrade a camera for low-light sensitivity, we provide the basic software for adding software and increasing performance. Software updates are all packaged.” How much do marine robotics vendors rely on proprietary software? “It is an issue in our space,” acknowledged Cross. “Others have closed ecosystems and are harder to modify. Some of the large working-class ROVs in oil and gas are multimillion-dollar robots that are deployed off large ships that have control centers with…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.56
June 28, 2021
…of the competition,” reported CNBC. Xpeng has been using NVIDIA Corp.'s DRIVE AGX platform, which includes the Xavier system-on-a-chip architecture. NVIDIA this month announced its intent to acquire autonomous vehicle mapping startup DeepMap. Billion-dollar race for AVs Xpeng, whose investors include Alibaba, raised $900 million in Series C+ financing in August 2020. The company raised $1.5 billion in its IPO on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), and The Wall Street Journal said the company has a market value of about $32 billion. Several of this year's top transactions in robotics and related technologies have been around autonomous vehicles (AVs),…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.07
June 21, 2021
…simulation to accelerate testing and address potential edge cases. NVIDIA Corp. today announced the open beta of its Isaac Sim engine, which includes several new features. Isaac Sim, which is built on NVIDIA's Omniverse platform, now includes support for multiple cameras and sensors, compatibility with ROS 2, the ability to import CAD [computer-aided design] assets, and synthetic data generation and domain randomization. These features will help designers train a wide range of robots by deploying “digital twins,” where they are tested in an accurate virtual environment, said the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company. “Currently, the simulation-to-reality gap means that most developers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.40
June 15, 2021
…and deep learning in the most demanding applications, said NVIDIA Corp. The company said its new NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial module makes it possible to deploy AI at the edge in harsh environments where safety and reliability are critical priorities. Designed for reliability, safety, and security NVIDIA said Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial combines the supercomputing capabilities of the Jetson AGX Xavier system-on-module with new reliability, availability, and serviceability features. These include error correction codes, single error correction, double error detection and parity protection to deliver internal RAM resilience, address and data bus error detection and correction, and IP resiliency…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 39.63
May 10, 2021
…that its teleoperation software is now available on the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform. NVIDIA DRIVE is an open, software-defined, end-to-end platform that the transportation industry is using to develop autonomous vehicles at scale. Mission-critical systems such power plants and aircraft require human supervision. Similarly, a human must be in the loop, or present, for most safe autonomous vehicle operations, said Tel Aviv, Israel-based Ottopia. “With Ottopia as an NVIDIA DRIVE ecosystem partner, developers can now access a universal teleoperation option for safe remote monitoring with tight integration to the DRIVE platform,” said Rammy Bahalul, director of autonomous machines and vehicles…
Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 53.28
April 28, 2021
NVIDIA is the pioneer of GPU-accelerated computing. The company said its invention of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999 redefined computer graphics and gaming, ignited the era of modern AI, and fueled the creation of the industrial metaverse. The GPU now acts as the “brains” of robots, autonomous machines, and self-driving vehicles that can perceive and understand the world around them. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data center-scale offerings that it said are reshaping industry. NVIDIA offers robotics-focused products and solutions from the cloud to edge—including the Isaac and Jetson platforms for edge AI, robots, computer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.67
April 23, 2021
…lids, tubs, clamshells, and cups. AMP’s technology, which uses NVIDIA processors, can also recover cardboard, paper, cans, cartons, and other container and packaging types reclaimed for raw material processing. It can quickly adapt to container packaging by brand, helping meet the demand for sufficient quantities of high-quality recycled material as consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies commit to using post-consumer content. Last month, AMP announced the launch of its automated secondary sorting facilities, which apply AI to sort low volumes of residue to recover mixed plastics. These material streams also contain high-value recyclables such as used beverage cans (UBCs) and old…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.12
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…
