Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 13.95
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 66.56
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 Companies & Businesses, with a score of 86.20
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 43.93
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 105.62
October 06, 2020
NVIDIA has expanded the NVIDIA Jetson AI at the Edge platform with an entry-level developer kit priced at just $59, opening the potential of AI and robotics to a new generation of students, educators and hobbyists. The Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit is designed for teaching and learning AI by creating hands-on projects in such areas as robotics and intelligent IoT. To support the effort, NVIDIA also made available free online training and AI-certification programs, which will supplement the many open-source projects, how-tos and videos contributed by thousands of developers in the Jetson community. The NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB Developer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.97
November 01, 2019
…with the latest advances in compute capabilities, such as NVIDIA’s Jetson product line and cutting-edge AI, such as deep neural networks, it becomes possible to structure the information so as to extract troves of useful features,” says Carlos Asmat, lead robotics engineer at Piaggio Fast Forward. “Given the increasing abundance of computational power, it becomes more advantageous to use sensors that can capture as much information as possible while remaining affordable.” Despite these advances, sensing technologies currently supporting smart home robots represent an early, transitional stage of development. Designers and users alike can expect steady change in this sector. “As…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 86.28
August 16, 2019
…release of the JetBot AI Kit powered by the NVIDIA Jetson Nano and the Course Materials Kit for “Getting Started with AI on the Jetson Nano” from NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute. SparkFun’s version of the JetBot merges the machine learning capabilities of the NVIDIA Jetson Nano with the vast SparkFun ecosystem of sensors and accessories. Packaged as a ready-to-assemble robotics platform, the SparkFun JetBot Kit requires no additional components or 3D printing to get started, just assemble the robot, boot up the Jetson Nano and start using the JetBot immediately. The Jetson Nano Developer Kit offers extensibility through a GPIO…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 7.96
May 01, 2019
…Crupi, vice president of edge analytics at Greenwave Systems. “NVIDIA just announced a GPU-based edge board called Jetson Nano for $99. And Qualcomm’s AI Engine runs on its newer generation Snapdragon-based boards. Ultimately, the best processor type will depend on power requirements, cost and use cases.” One Way to Eliminate the Bottleneck As impressive as the advances in the digital sector are, some developers have begun to look beyond conventional technology to explore new types of processors and computing architectures. In their search, designers increasingly place a premium on technologies that promise to deliver high throughput and excel at handling…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 45.04
March 25, 2019
Around noon on Monday March 18, NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC) attendees began boarding the long black buses that would shuttle them to the site of the keynote. The 15-min ride from the convention center took them to the San Jose State University's sunny campus. It was still more than an hour before the scheduled keynote, but the queue was already snaking through the grass fields, all the way to the student union building that houses the canteen. “Hey, thanks for coming out this way! We got so packed in the old place we had to get you out here.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.42
November 22, 2017
The promise of the Jetsons has finally arrived as autonomous vehicles of all types come at us. Or is that promise really here quite yet? Leading the pack are commercial airliners that typically rely on autonomous control more than they do on pilots and co-pilots. Built as a completely autonomous cargo ship, the Norwegian Yara Birkeland is to set sail next year followed by Rolls-Royce’s autonomous tug boats and ferries in 2020. And, of course, there are autonomous drones, especially in military operations, that will one day make human-controlled drones a quaint memory. Clearly, the subject of autonomous vehicles is…
