Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 40.61
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 18.60
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 33.49
May 25, 2023
NVIDIA Corp. today said it will present more than a dozen robotics research papers at this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, or ICRA, which will be held in London from May 29 to June 2. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will recognize one of the company's papers, titled “Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior,” with an IEEE Best Paper award at ICRA. Papers examine training robots in simulation to work in reality Many of this year’s submissions demonstrate robotics capabilities trained in simulation that were then shown to work…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 19.06
May 23, 2023
…with access to simulation from Isaac Sim, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse. Design robots in simulation for real-world deployments READY Robotics said it is making design work easier for non-programmers, helping to validate robots and systems for accelerated deployments. The startup said it is developing Omniverse Extensions — Omniverse kit applications based on Isaac Sim — and can deploy them on the cloud. It also uses Omniverse Nucleus, the platform’s database and collaboration engine, in the cloud. Isaac Sim is NVIDIA's application framework that enables simulation training for testing out robots in virtual production lines before deployment into the real world.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 51.61
May 19, 2023
Before a robot can navigate, it needs to know where it is. The NVIDIA Isaac™ ROS Map Localization package provides a GPU-accelerated node to find the position of the robot relative to a lidar occupancy map. In this webinar, we’ll present how this package works, and how to use it for initial localization of your robot.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.61
May 16, 2023
…one of the most extensive digital twin infrastructures around NVIDIA's Omniverse. This infrastructure will provide a realistic, scalable, and flexible environment for testing and improving robotic systems in realistic environments. Finally, we're constructing new tools for designing the smart factory of the future. We're envisioning a world where robotics and automation are seamlessly integrated, optimizing productivity and minimizing waste. So, stay tuned for some truly groundbreaking developments from RIOS. It sounds like you’re still optimistic about industrial automation. Casse: Absolutely, my optimism for industrial automation remains unwavering. We're currently standing on the cusp of a significant transformation, the advent of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 9.89
May 16, 2023
…Zurich and the University of Oxford. It also mentioned NVIDIA, since it is taking advantage of chip maker's GPU to power the ANYmal. Investors see promise in ANYbotics The funding round was led by investors Walden Catalyst and NGP Capital with participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Aramco Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, Swisscanto Private Equity, and other existing investors. “We are thrilled to invest in ANYbotics, a pioneering technology originated at ETH Zurich that combines AI and Reinforcement Learning with robotics to create highly robust and autonomous four-legged robots,” said Young Sohn, managing partner at Walden Catalyst. “This unique technology allows robots…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 16.76
May 03, 2023
…One of these tests was conducted by industry leader NVIDIA, which confirmed in simulation that its Mission Dispatch software worked seamlessly out of the box with the OTTO Motors VDA 5050 connector. “Managing and testing fleets of autonomous robots requires two computers—one in the robot and one in the cloud—to dispatch tasks and communicate the status of these tasks to and from the robots,” said Gerard Andrews, product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “As part of the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform, we built Mission Dispatch and Mission Client on VDA 5050 to facilitate interoperability for users handling heterogeneous robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 24.95
May 02, 2023
Customers from Japan to Ecuador and Sweden are using NVIDIA DGX H100 systems like AI factories to manufacture intelligence, according to NVIDIA. They’re creating services that offer AI-driven insights in finance, healthcare, law, IT and telecom — and working to transform their industries in the process. Among the dozens of DGX H100 use cases, one aims to predict how factory equipment will age, so tomorrow’s plants can be more efficient. Called Green Physics AI, it adds information like an object’s CO2 footprint, age, and energy consumption to SORDI.ai, which claims to be the largest synthetic dataset in manufacturing. The dataset…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.63
April 27, 2023
…its next-generation FREYR Battery factories that was developed using NVIDIA technology. Munich-based Siemens said it created the model partly to highlight a strategic partnership with FREYR. Siemens has become FREYR’s preferred automation supplier, enabling the Oslo, Norway-based group to scale up production and maximize plant efficiency. Built by Siemens, the demo used the NVIDIA Omniverse development platform to provide an immersive experience of the FREYR factories and follows the joint vision for an industrial metaverse unveiled last year by Siemens and NVIDIA. Siemens demonstrates with data from FREYR Siemens incorporated operational data from FREYR's factory in Norway as part of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.26
April 26, 2023
…workloads with more speed and power efficiency, according to NVIDIA. The mission of NVIDIA Isaac ROS has always been to empower ROS developers with the accelerated computing packages and tools needed to develop high-performance, power-efficient robotics applications. NVIDIA is also pioneering accelerated computing into ROS 2, and continuing to deliver improvements with each release. More than 20 hardware-accelerated ROS packages have been added in the past two years, with support for the latest ROS 2 distribution. The company's team worked with Open Robotics last year to include adaptation and type negotiation to improve the ROS performance on compute platforms that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.31
April 12, 2023
…at CES included systems from Texas Instruments, Qualcomm, and NVIDIA—all running the same code, said Nicholson. “Our SDK [software development kit] makes it all possible to tune the algorithms, port them, and test them on low-cost sensors,” he added. Vision, lidar, and 'living, breathing' digital twins Where does SLAMcore fall in the ongoing tug of war between lidar and vision systems? “We're not anti-lidar, but we're vision-first,” Nicholson replied. “Lidar will never be as affordable as a CMOS [complementary metal-oxide semiconductor] sensor, but we'll integrate with it. In the warehouse, if you've put down magnetic strips, you can keep using…
