Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 10.49
August 19, 2022
…upstart Recogni is going after chip-making heavyweights such as NVIDIA. Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., the company makes chips that are used in autonomous vehicles for visual perception. Recogni said its Vision Cognition Module (VCM) system enables object detection accuracy up to 1,000 m (3,280 ft.) in real time. The onboard chip can also analyze and process multiple streams of data from the autonomous vehicle's high resolution cameras at high frame rates. The company said the Peto-op class system is able to be powered using only 25W of power. It added it was able to do this by “use of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.28
August 16, 2022
NVIDIA highlighted today one of its NVIDIA Metropolis members, Seoul Robotics. The company is using NVIDIA's technology to retroactively add self-driving features to non-autonomous vehicles without the need for additional sensors onboard. The Seoul, South Korea-based company’s platform, dubbed LV5 CTRL TWR, collects 3D data from the environment using cameras and lidar. Computer vision and deep learning-based AI analyze the data, determining the most efficient and safest paths for vehicles within the covered area. The system takes advantage of a vehicle’s V2X communication system, which comes standard in many modern cars and is used to improve road safety, traffic efficiency,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 14.10
August 15, 2022
…with remote access and support. Source: Overview.ai Advantech uses NVIDIA modules in camera Embedded with NVIDIA Jetson Nano modules, Advantech’s new ICAM-500 AI camera combines an industrial-grade image sensor, advanced LED lighting, and a variable focus lens with acquisition and AI computing capabilities. The company said these features enable systems integrators and software vendors to integrate AI and machine vision into applications. They can also efficiently perform AI automated optical inspection (AOI), AI optical character recognition (OCR), and object recognition at the edge. “The ICAM-500 is a unique device, as the combination of NVIDIA computing modules and camera system offers…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 32.35
August 11, 2022
Tokyo-based startup Telexistence this week announced it will deploy NVIDIA AI-powered robots to restock shelves at hundreds of FamilyMart convenience stores in Japan. There are 56,000 convenience stores in Japan — the third-highest density worldwide. Around 16,000 of them are run by FamilyMart, according to NVIDIA. Telexistence aims to save time for these stores by offloading repetitive tasks like refilling shelves of beverages to a robot, allowing retail staff to tackle more complex tasks like interacting with customers. Telexistence’s robots run on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI and robotics platform, NVIDIA said. “We want to deploy robots to industries that…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 27.41
August 09, 2022
NVIDIA today announced a new range of developer frameworks, tools, apps, and plugins for NVIDIA Omniverse, the platform for building and connecting metaverse worlds based on Universal Scene Description (USD). The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said the expansion of Omniverse includes several AI-powered tools and features that deliver artists, developers, and engineers the power to build virtual worlds and content easier than ever, and better connect to today’s leading 3D applications including PTC Creo, SideFX Houdini, Unity, and solutions from the Siemens Xcelerator platform. A ‘multitrillion-dollar opportunity’ Omniverse, a multi-GPU scalable computing platform for building virtual worlds, is already in…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 30.09
August 03, 2022
…ones, can be challenging for developers and enterprises, said NVIDIA Corp. The company today announced that the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin 32GB production module is now available. Nearly three-dozen technology providers in the NVIDIA Partner Network worldwide are offering products powered by the new module, which provides up to a 6x performance leap over the previous generation, said NVIDIA. With a wide range of offerings from Jetson partners, developers can build and deploy Orin-powered systems sporting cameras, sensors, software, and connectivity suited for edge AI, robotics, AI of things (AIoT), and embedded applications, said the company. Production-ready systems with options…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 11.24
August 01, 2022
…has improved integration and widespread adoption of ROS and NVIDIA Jetson software packages. Developers pick from a catalog of algorithms, AI, process control, spatial recognition, and more. The robot can then be tested in a simulated environment to understand how the robot will handle various scenarios before it ever leaves the production floor. “We are honored to have AAEON offer parts that are Nimbus enabled, allowing rapid uptime by syncing with a virtual environment,” said Dr. Yehuda Elmaliah, co-founder and CEO of Cogniteam. “In a few clicks, developers benefit from a system that’s already familiar with AAEON’s hardware specifications and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.08
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 8.69
July 19, 2022
…vehicles. Outrider said its integrated autonomy kit includes the NVIDIA DRIVE platform for perception system processing, Ouster’s high-resolution lidar sensors for perception, and Yaskawa’s industrial robot arm for connecting and disconnecting trailer lines. Outrider has designed an autonomy-ready electric yard truck with Orange EV. The company and its customers have purchased 24 of these vehicles for expanded customer pilots and tests with the latest autonomy kit. “This is the single largest purchase of Class 8 electric vehicles specifically designed for autonomous yard operations in the industry and demonstrates how Outrider will be a catalyst for bringing thousands of zero-emission vehicles…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.82
June 29, 2022
…help industrial automation address new challenges. Siemens AG and NVIDIA Corp. today announced the expansion of their partnership and plans to first connect the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for 3D design and collaboration. The companies said their collaboration will “enable an industrial metaverse with physics-based digital models from Siemens and real-time AI from NVIDIA in which companies make decisions faster and with increased confidence.” “Siemens and NVIDIA share a common vision that the industrial metaverse will drive digital transformation,” stated Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “This is just the first step…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 26.38
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 4.72
June 17, 2022
…top industry leaders including executives from FANUC, Teradyne, and NVIDIA, as well as Greg Brown, vice president of the Advanced Technology Group at UPS. During the panel, Wise observed that traditionally, robots have acted as “sole agents” focused on narrow tasks and are thus historically not adept at operating collaboratively in integrated, multi-agent settings. But that is changing via interoperability with other types of automation, as well as people-centered workflows and data capture devices and technologies like printers, she said. After the panel, Wise said the value of mobile robots will increasingly come from how easily they integrate with other…
