Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 43.57
October 18, 2023
…APIs and microservices are coming to the edge, said NVIDIA Corp. The company today announced major expansion to two frameworks in the NVIDIA Jetson platform for robotics and artificial intelligence on the edge: NVIDIA Isaac ROS has entered general availability, and it is expanding NVIDIA Metropolis on Jetson. “Generative AI is bringing the power of transformer models and large language models to virtually every industry,” wrote Amit Goel, director of product management for autonomous machines, in a blog post. “That reach now includes areas that touch edge, robotics, and logistics systems: defect detection, real-time asset tracking, autonomous planning and navigation,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 41.54
July 19, 2023
…oceanic monitoring by “sailing seas of data,” according to NVIDIA Corp. The startup’s nautical data-collection technology has tracked hurricanes in the North Atlantic, discovered a 3,200-ft. underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean and begun to help map the entirety of the world’s ocean floor. Alameda, Calif.-based Saildrone develops autonomous uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) that carry a wide range of sensors. NVIDIA Jetson modules process its data streams for artificial intelligence at the edge. They are optimized in prototypes with the NVIDIA DeepStream software development kit (SDK) for intelligent video analytics. Saildrone said it is seeking to make ocean data collection…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 41.35
September 06, 2022
…AI computing appliance, MOV.AI's Robotics Engine Platform, and the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform. The integration will give AMR manufacturers and integrators a robust platform to speed up development, improve operational efficiency, and optimize robot performance, they said. “Our expertise in creating NVIDIA-optimized edge computing servers, combined with MOV.AI's state-of-the-art AMR software powered by NVIDIA edge AI and robotics technologies, provides an off-the-shelf platform to build enterprise-grade autonomous robots for today's challenging industrial environments,” said Jeans Tseng, chief technology officer of Lanner Electronics. “We are confident that our AMR platform will enable service providers and manufacturers to quickly deploy the top-performing…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.50
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 40.23
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 39.22
May 24, 2022
…designed to take advantage of the latest compute hardware. NVIDIA Corp. and Open Robotics today announced two features in the Humble ROS 2 release intended to improve performance on platforms that offer hardware accelerators. “The Robot Operating System evolved in a CPU-only world, but newer SoC architectures with onboard hardware accelerators required us to make changes to maximize efficiencies,” said Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “We identified two things for this release—type adaptation and type negotiation.” The features are intended to help robotics developers incorporate machine learning and computer vision into ROS-based applications and will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.61
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 36.44
January 03, 2022
…machines, as well as general manager for robotics at NVIDIA Corp., has some ideas. Gopalakrishna leads the business development team that focuses on robots, drones, the industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), and enterprise collaboration products. He holds a bachelor of engineering from the National Institute of Engineering in India. Before joining NVIDIA in 2016, Gopalakrishna was the global head of platform and technology strategy, leading the chief technology officer's office at Sony Mobile Communications. He was responsible for products ranging from phones, tablets, and wearables to IoT platforms. Gopalakrishna shared his thoughts with Robotics 24/7 about Santa Clara, Calif.-based NVIDIA's…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 36.10
June 12, 2023
…tools and explore just how they might be used. NVIDIA Isaac ROS takes robots to the edge In October 2022, NVIDIA Corp. released Isaac ROS Developer Preview (DP) 2, which uses the open-source Robot Operating System (ROS 2) to enhance robot capabilities with advanced cloud and edge software. The company said its updated software included innovations and features for robustness, including an array of task management tools for AMR fleets. ROS 2 developers can use it to develop additional capabilities for their unique applications, it said. Specifically, NVIDIA's Isaac ROS includes individual packages called GEMs (Generalized Machine Learning Systems) and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.87
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 35.28
June 17, 2022
…tools that facilitate the training of machine learning systems. NVIDIA Corp. today announced the availability of the 2022.1 release of NVIDIA Isaac Sim. “With Isaac Sim, developers can generate production-quality datasets to train AI perception models,” wrote Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA, in a blog post. “Developers will also be able to simulate robotic navigation and manipulation, as well as build a test environment to validate robotics applications continually.” NVIDIA works to close 'reality gap' With its NVIDIA Omniverse applications, the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company has focused on ever more realistic simulation and digital twins…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.08
November 06, 2024
Software provider NVIDIA recently revealed new AI and simulation tools and workflows for robot developers, including humanoid developers, at the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) in Munich, Germany. The lineup includes the general availability of the NVIDIA Isaac Lab robot learning framework. These include six new humanoid robot learning workflows for Project Generalist Robot 00 Technology (GR00T) and new world-model development tools for video data curation and processing, including the NVIDIA Cosmos tokenizer and NVIDIA NeMo Curator for video processing. Open-source Isaac Lab can scale robot training NVIDIA Isaac Lab is an open-source robot learning framework built on NVIDIA Omniverse,…
