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,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 15.88
September 13, 2024
…machine-tending application with new AI-based perception capabilities running on NVIDIA Jetson and Isaac acceleration libraries integrated into UR’s new PolyScope X platform. This combination enables dynamic path planning, ensuring the robot takes the most effective, collision-free paths in and out of the machine without requiring extensive user configuration. UR plans to make this technology available for a wide range of applications, including machine tending and other material handling tasks. “AI isn’t just hype,” said Ujjwal Kumar, group president of Teradyne Robotics, parent company of Universal Robots. “We’re seeing significant interest in physical AI. By adding high-performance compute hardware to our…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 51.26
July 03, 2024
…series Stereo Vision 3D cameras are now integrated with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, a reference workflow for autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) built on GPU-accelerated Isaac ROS. These cameras enhance depth quality and provide longer-range sensing in varied lighting conditions, which lets Isaac Perceptor - whose general availability was announced by NVIDIA at COMPUTEX - output 3D reconstruction and obstacle cost maps of any unstructured environment. Gemini 330 series provide clearer view The Gemini 335/335L/336/336L cameras operate in both passive and active laser-illuminated modes to ensure high-quality depth and RGB data output, even in challenging lighting conditions. The depth algorithms are processed…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 53.15
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 28.27
June 11, 2024
…supports Dex3-1 force-controlled dexterous hand installation, optional tactile sensor arrays, greater knee joint torque and arm load and optional NVIDIA Jetson Orin high computing power module to support secondary development.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 66.64
June 07, 2024
…location-aware artificial perception platform, recently announced the integration of NVIDIA Isaac robotics technologies into RGo Robotics platforms to help advance AI-powered automation. The companies made the announcement at COMPUTEX in Taipei. Perception Engine & NVIDIA integration RGo's Perception Engine, a deployed vision and AI offering for localization, obstacle detection and scene understanding, will integrate NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor technologies to provide advanced vison capabilities to AI-based autonomous mobile robots. This integrated software stack is compatible with the newly released NVIDIA Nova Orin Developer Kit. Using RGo's perception offering with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, running on NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules, customers can deploy…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 17.55
May 06, 2024
…robot navigation, troubleshooting With AI pallet detection powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the MiR1200 Pallet Jack uses 3D machine vision to identify, pick up, and deliver pallets. First introduced at LogiMat in Germany in March, the MiR1200 Pallet Jack can interoperate with MiR’s deck load AMRs, which the company said makes it ideal for large-scale enterprise customers who typically operate more complex workflows with larger fleets and multiple sites. MiR said its AMRs can navigate smoothly and safely among people and other transport equipment in dynamic environments, even on busy trade show floors. Sensors, 3D cameras and laser scanning…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 49.92
April 01, 2024
…mobile robot (AMR). With AI pallet detection powered by NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, the MiR1200 pallet jack uses 3D machine vision to identify, pick up, and deliver pallets. “We believe that the built-in AI detection system is a significant improvement over older detection technologies,” said Mads Paulin, vice president of R&D at MiR. “Our approach will reduce pick-and-place cycle times, deliver best-in-class pick accuracy and allow us to continuously deliver advanced, AI-based functionality and value to our customers.” Pallet jack interoperable with MiR deck load AMRs The MiR1200 pallet jack is designed to integrate with existing MiR AMR fleets and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 57.27
April 01, 2024
Teradyne Robotics recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring new AI capabilities to automation applications. Teradyne is the parent company of collaborative robot arm provider Universal Robots (UR) and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) provider Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR). Last week, UR demonstrated an autonomous inspection system powered by NVIDIA Isaac cuMotion path planning at the GTC global AI conference in San Jose, California. MiR recently launched its new MiR1200 autonomous pallet jack, which harnesses AI pallet detection powered by the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin module. The MiR1200 Pallet Jack and UR’s cuMotion demo are Teradyne’s two most recent examples…
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 61.54
February 05, 2024
…a 20MP 5K multi-camera designed for compatibility with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin platform. The camera is based around the onsemi AR2020 CMOS digital image sensor. Interface options include MIPI and GMSL, with upcoming USB support. An optional IP67 enclosure is available for the GMSL version. E-con said applications for its e-CAM200_CUOAGX include drones, autonomous sports broadcasting and analytics, skin analyzers, fundus imaging, whole slide imaging, OCR, inventory scanning, and digital twins. E-CAM200_CUOAGX captures fast-moving objects at 30fps E-con described the features of e-CAM200_CUOAGX as follows: 20MP resolution - ensures imaging quality, capturing tiny details at a distance while maintaining reliability…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 29.72
January 12, 2024
…in R&D, in-house manufacturing and supply chain. With the NVIDIA platform: The Gemini 2 XL, when paired directly with the NVIDIA Jetson Orin system-on-modules instead of the OBox, allows for additional image processing resulting in further improvement in the depth frame rate, accuracy, and scene versatility. This optimized deeplearning pipeline and camera calibration service will be offered only as part of Orbbec’s ODM package. Customizable, Scene-Specific Algorithms: Support for customization of the AI depth output and the ability for customers to re-train the model with their own data sets to achieve better performance under their specific application environment will be…
