Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 16.78
…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 vision applications, and more. From the Isaac Sim physically accurate, photoreal robotics simulator to the Isaac AMR autonomy platform for mobile robots, the end-to-end NVIDIA Isaac platform is designed to revolutionize development and deployment of advanced AI-powered robots.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 8.44
…Las Vegas today, NVIDIA Corp. announced major updates to Isaac Sim, its tool for building and testing virtual robots across varied operating conditions in simulated environments. The installed base of industrial and commercial robots will grow by more than sixfold—from 3.1 million in 2020 to 20 million in 2030, according to ABI Research. “Broadly speaking, the challenge [for robotics developers] falls into two categories,” said Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager for embedded and edge computing at NVIDIA. “The first is continuous development and operations of robots.” “The second is runtime on physical robots,” he added. “DevOps is many…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 6.61
…NVIDIA Corp. today announced the open beta of its Isaac Sim engine, which includes several new features. Isaac Sim, which is built on NVIDIA's Omniverse platform, now includes support for multiple cameras and sensors, compatibility with ROS 2, the ability to import CAD [computer-aided design] assets, and synthetic data generation and domain randomization. These features will help designers train a wide range of robots by deploying “digital twins,” where they are tested in an accurate virtual environment, said the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company. “Currently, the simulation-to-reality gap means that most developers prefer to test on hardware with only limited functionality,”…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.81
…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 to accelerate artificial intelligence for robots. “This follows our strategy for end-to-end…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.63
…simulation interoperability between Open Robotics’s Ignition Gazebo and NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse. Isaac Sim already supports ROS 1 and 2 out of the box and features an ecosystem of 3D content with its connection to popular applications such as Blender and Unreal Engine 4. With the two simulators interoperable, ROS developers can easily move their robots and environments between Ignition Gazebo and Isaac Sim to run large-scale simulations, said NVIDIA. They can also take advantage of each simulator’s advanced features such as high-fidelity dynamics, accurate sensor models, and photorealistic rendering to generate synthetic data for training and testing of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.21
…New Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) workflow will allow NVIDIA Isaac Sim users to create production-quality datasets at scale for vision AI training. The company claimed that Isaac Sim on Omniverse, with out-of-the box support for ROS, is the most developer-friendly release to date. Isaac ROS GEMs offer optimized performance Isaac ROS GEMs provide packages that encompass image processing and computer vision, including DNN-based algorithms highly optimized for NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs) and the full Jetson lineup. We'll take a closer look at some of these GEMs below. Block diagram representing software components in Isaac ROS stack showing the new…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.19
…investment from NVIDIA plus plans to integrate NVIDIA’s Omniverse Isaac Sim into READY Robotics’ Forge/OS. The Columbus, Ohio-based company said NVIDIA’s investment allows it to improve its core Forge/OS 5 platform as well as to support a growing ecosystem of partners and developers. READY Robotics added that it provides a foundation that enables software developers to meet their demands. By enabling integration with processing at the edge, these systems can offer increased efficiency without compromising on privacy, latency, or data security, the company argued. “Manufacturing has been held back for decades by software silos between robot vendors,” said Ben Gibbs,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 5.15
…Toyota will employ READY ForgeOS in tandem with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a robotics simulator developed on NVIDIA Omniverse, to build a simulated robotic programming environment for its aluminum hot forging production lines. This collaboration is set to enhance safety and efficiency in Toyota’s manufacturing processes. Typically, programming robotic systems for forging necessitates that the metal parts remain hot during programming, presenting significant safety challenges. With the integration of ForgeOS and NVIDIA Isaac Sim - an extensible application developed on the Omniverse platform for simulating, developing and testing robots - programming can now be accomplished in a simulated environment, eliminating the…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.89
At ROSCon 2022, NVIDIA announced the newest Isaac ROS software release, Developer Preview (DP) 2. This release includes new cloud– and edge-to-robot task management and monitoring software for autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets as well as additional features for ROS 2 developers. NVIDIA Isaac ROS consists of individual packages (GEMs) and complete pipelines (NITROS) for hardware-accelerated performance. In addition to performance improvements, the new release adds the following functionality: Mission Dispatch and Client: An open-source CPU package to assign and monitor tasks from a fleet management system to the robot. Mission Dispatch is a cloud-native microservice that can be integrated…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.71
…ability to analyze synthetic environments,” he said. “Using NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse, we could seamlessly import different environments from CAD tools like Trimble SketchUp. Generating perfectly labeled ground-truth synthetic data then becomes a straightforward exercise.” Office building viewed in Trimble SketchUp, a 3D modeling application. Source: NVIDIA To ensure that models work robustly, developers working on robotics and automation applications need diverse datasets that include all assets of the target environment. In case of indoors, the list might include assets such as partitions, staircases, doors, windows, and furniture. While these datasets can be constructed manually with real photographers and…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.51
…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 in Isaac, our end-to-end robotics platform that is being used by the greater robotics ecosystem to build, test, train, and deploy intelligent robots. Gerard Andrews, NVIDIA We announced our latest Isaac Sim release, which has gained traction with customers and partners worldwide. The video [below] demonstrates the breadth of robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 4.29
…also recently upgraded to the new NVIDIA Omniverse-powered NVIDIA Isaac Sim, which has bought a raft of significant improvements to the BenchBot platform. Whether robotics is your hobby, academic pursuit, or job, BenchBot along with NVIDIA Isaac Sim capabilities enables you to jump into the wonderful world of robotics with only a few lines of Python. In this post, we share how we created BenchBot, what it enables, where we plan to take it in the future, and where you can take it in your own work. Our goal is to give you the tools to start working on your…