Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.29
May 29, 2022
…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 working…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.85
May 24, 2022
…from Orin on the compute side and RTX to Omniverse for simulation and EGX edge servers to build different SDKs [software development kits] for different applications and markets.” NVIDIA said ROS developers interested in integrating AI perception into their products can get started now with Isaac ROS GEMs. Comparison of results from synthetic camera image, top, and RGB stereo camera image capture with no active projection, bottom; image on left, BI3D DNN prediction for four proximity fields with ground freespace, second from left; ESS DNN prediction for continuous depth, second from right; and classic CV stereo disparity function on the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.87
April 08, 2022
…of their heterogeneous fleets of robots. Our tool, NVIDIA Omniverse, allows the facility owners to optimize warehouse operations before deploying their robots in the real world. Burnstein: There's a lot more automation than ever before—robotics, autonomous forklifts, smart sensors, mobile robots, etc. Kelly Kamlager, senior director of marketing at RIOS Kamlager: This year's trends included the proliferation of AGVs, demand for mixed palletizing and parcel sortation, and more partnerships between large systems integrators and AI-powered robotics startups. We also saw that palletizing is becoming widespread, and an increasing number of customers are seeking solutions for high-mix, low-volume, and rapid change…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.49
March 23, 2022
…Its digital twins are built on NVIDIA's recently updated Omniverse. The demonstration task performed by the robots is an integral part of operations within distribution centers of all scale, said RIOS. RIOS will showcase active workcell deployments in supply chain and manufacturing environments. The company claimed that its end-to-end robotic workcells are currently deployed in the warehousing, fulfillment, food manufacturing and production, and end-of-line packaging sectors. RIOS workcells seamlessly integrate within existing workflows. Bernard Casse, RIOS Dr. Bernard Casse, founder and CEO of RIOS: There is a real need for automation in the consumer-packaged goods industry, as it is a…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 18.46
March 22, 2022
…application development and optimization such as NVIDIA Isaac on Omniverse, Clara for healthcare, Metropolis, and the TAO Toolkit. “AI model development is a time-consuming process,” Talla said. “NVIDIA's application frameworks include easy-to-use libraries that accelerate runtime applications.” These tools can reduce time and cost for production-quality AI deployments, allowing developers to access the largest, most complex models needed to solve robotics and edge AI challenges in 3D perception, natural language understanding, multisensor fusion, and more, NVIDIA said. NVIDIA touts ecosystem support, customer interest The company's embedded computing partners encompass a range of products and services, including cameras and other multimodal…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.09
January 04, 2022
…is built on NVIDIA AI and Isaac Sim on Omniverse and is deployed with Fleet Command,” said Richard Kerris, vice president of Omniverse at NVIDIA. Omniverse is the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company's scalable reference development platform using multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) for 3D simulation and collaborative design. Robot fleets to benefit from optimization The number of sites deploying autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) will increase from 9,000 in 2020 to 53,000 by 2025, estimated Interact Analysis. At the same time, supply chains have strained to keep up with accelerated e-commerce demand amid worker shortages and COVID-19 restrictions, said NVIDIA. The…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 12.97
January 03, 2022
…accomplishments this past year? Gopalakrishna: NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse is now available to roboticists worldwide. Customers, developers, and researchers can accelerate robotics development as they leverage the high-fidelity PhysX engine and photorealistic environments. In partnership with Open Robotics, NVIDIA announced support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) and ROS2, and we launched the Isaac ROS library, which includes highly performant robotics and AI algorithms. More on NVIDIA and Robotics 10 Technologies for Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics Developers From NVIDIA's GTC 2021 Ottonomy Develops Autonomous Robots for Indoor and Outdoor Deliveries Top Three Trends With the Current Iteration of Robotics NVIDIA…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.85
November 12, 2021
…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 surge,” said Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager of embedded and edge computing at…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.09
October 21, 2021
…AI training. The company claimed that Isaac Sim on Omniverse, with out-of-the box support for ROS, is the most developer-friendly release to date. Isaac ROS GEMs offer optimized performance Isaac ROS GEMs provide packages that encompass image processing and computer vision, including DNN-based algorithms highly optimized for NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) and the full Jetson lineup. We'll take a closer look at some of these GEMs below. Block diagram representing software components in Isaac ROS stack showing the new Isaac ROS GEMs. Source: NVIDIA Stereo Visual Odometry GEM offers accuracy and optimized performance As autonomous machines move around in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 25.50
October 05, 2021
…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 and human labelers, that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.02
October 04, 2021
…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 what is…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.23
September 22, 2021
…Open Robotics’s Ignition Gazebo and NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse. Isaac Sim already supports ROS 1 and 2 out of the box and features an ecosystem of 3D content with its connection to popular applications such as Blender and Unreal Engine 4. With the two simulators interoperable, ROS developers can easily move their robots and environments between Ignition Gazebo and Isaac Sim to run large-scale simulations, said NVIDIA. They can also take advantage of each simulator’s advanced features such as high-fidelity dynamics, accurate sensor models, and photorealistic rendering to generate synthetic data for training and testing of AI models. “Developers…
