Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.49
May 09, 2022
…prebuilt software packages from the Robot Operating System (ROS), NVIDIA’s Isaac SDK GEMs toolset, and field-tested algorithms that Cogniteam developed in-house. Once mobilized, developers can keep Nimbus-operated robots up to date throughout their lives with the latest software and artificial intelligence developments through regular cloud updates and lesson sharing, said Cogniteam. This decade-old company said it has already developed robots in cooperation with companies such as NVIDIA, Intel, Mitsubishi, and others. Investment to grow sales, marketing teams Participants in Cogniteam's Series A round included previous investors Seabarn Management, Andrew Owens, and U.K.-based Panthera family office members. “We seized the opportunity…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.33
August 08, 2023
…intelligence, simulation, and robotics are continuing to rapidly advance. NVIDIA Corp. today announced a major release of its NVIDIA Omniverse software that it said offers new foundation applications and services for developers to enhance and optimize their 3D pipelines with the OpenUSD framework and generative AI. Omniverse is a Universal Scene Description or OpenUSD-native platform for connecting, describing, and simulating across 3D tools and applications. NVIDIA said the update accelerates the creation of virtual worlds and advanced workflows for industrial digitalization. Cesium, Convai, Move AI, SideFX Houdini, and Wonder Dynamics are now connected to Omniverse via OpenUSD, said the Santa…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 22.25
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 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 21.60
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 21.58
June 23, 2023
…Taipei, Taiwan, and Milpitas, Calif., has also worked with NVIDIA IGX Orin to accelerate development of industrial and healthcare applications. Last week, the company launched the IoTMart International digital commerce platform to serve small to midsize customers. Valor offers customization and control Advantech's new Valor series of industrial workstations can manage robots, automation, and other equipment. The company builds all of its own boards, and Valor is designed for ease of configuration, said Waldman. “We control the revisions and different product numbers,” he told Robotics 24/7. “We can customize everything from the hardware inside to the logo on the outside.”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.53
August 03, 2023
…market. The updated SDK also introduces support for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin embedded systems for edge AI and robotics, said Slamcore. It claimed that the release will accelerate the integration of vision in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and enhance safety, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) in material handling environments. “Until now, we could only offer capabilities like these on a design-by-design basis in close collaboration with our customers,” said Owen Nicholson, CEO of Slamcore, in a release. “We provide a reference neural network for identifying objects but have designed this feature with flexibility in mind. Customers can use our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.29
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 21.06
July 29, 2022
…models for computer vision applications such as robotics, noted NVIDIA Corp. this week. Researchers at the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company introduced a structured domain randomization system within Omniverse Replicator that can help developers train and refine their models with synthetic data. Omniverse Replicator is a software development kit (SDK) built on the NVIDIA Omniverse platform that enables developers to build custom tools and workflows, said deep learning solutions architect Kshitiz Gupta and solutions architect Nyla Worker. “The NVIDIA Isaac Sim development team leveraged Omniverse Replicator SDK to build Isaac Replicator, a robotics-specific synthetic data-generation toolkit, exposed within the Isaac Sim…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.42
June 27, 2024
…THEIA-CAM camera reference design kit for embedded applications using NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX and Jetson Orin Nano platforms. The camera is based on THine’s THP7312-P image signal processor (ISP) and Sony’s IMX258 13 megapixel CMOS phase detection autofocus (PDAF) image sensor. THine said its pre-optimized ISP firmware can provide ultra-quick autofocus using PDAF. THine said its kit hardware includes all items required to interface with Jetson Orin carrier boards with a 22-pin MIPI CSI-2 input connector, including a camera board in an acrylic case and a flat flexible cable. The Video4Linux2 (V4L2) driver for the THSCJ101 is also available to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 20.36
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 19.65
January 10, 2020
…pushes the limits even further. With workstations equipped with NVIDIA RTX GPUs, you can work in real-time raytracing—a mode of working previously unthinkable due to the computing burden it entails. When the first crop of NVIDIA RTX GPUs based on Turning architecture was introduced at the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC), Kim Libreri, CTO of Epic Games, said, “The availability of these technologies is making real-time ray tracing a reality. By making such powerful features available in Unreal Engine 4, we are shaping the next generation of game and movie graphics.” “With Quadro RTX-accelerated ray tracing and AI denoising, [users]…
