Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 50.56
…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 58.00
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 36.35
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 62.29
…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 30.11
…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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 48.87
It's been a decade since NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered the company's DGX AI supercomputer to Open AI, and at CES 2024 in Las Vegas, the smart robotics organization made another major announcement in the artificial intelligence and robotics field. Speaking in a special address at CES, NVIDIA Vice President of Robotics and Edge Computing Deepu Talla laid out a plan for the company and its partners - including Boston Dynamics, Covariant, Sanctuary AI, Unitree Robotics, Collaborative Robotics and others - to bring generative AI and robotics together. At the center of the relationship is GPU-accelerated large language models (LLMs),…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 21.44
…RoboDK provides dedicated builds for systems such as the Nvidia Jetson or Raspberry Pi-based industrial computers. “The software works just like the desktop version of RoboDK,” explained Samuel Bertrand, software developer lead at RoboDK. “The main difference is that the system can be controlled remotely from any browser.” With its remote interface, users can also access their TwinBox from anywhere in the world, with full control of all connected external robots, devices, and sensors. This allows users to monitor their robots remotely, in real-time, giving them more flexibility and control over their automation. TwinBox also addresses the challenge of integrating…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.38
NVIDIA Corp. is known for supporting simulation and artificial intelligence, and it has been touting its advances in robotics and machine learning. At the Conference on Robot Learning, or CoRL, next month, the NVIDIA Robotics Research Lab will present its latest findings. The company also described how scientists and engineers are collaborating to use NVIDIA Jetson in undersea research platforms. The Seattle-based NVIDIA Robotics Research Lab focuses on robot manipulation, perception and physics-based simulation. It is part of NVIDIA Research, which includes more than 300 people around the world researching topics such as AI, computer graphics, computer vision, and autonomous…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 44.11
…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 70.42
…India, is powering his autonomous wheelchair project using the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics. The autonomous motorized wheelchair is connected to depth and lidar sensors—along with USB cameras—which allow it to perceive the environment and plan an obstacle-free path toward a user’s desired destination. “A person using the motorized wheelchair could provide the location they need to move to, which would already be programmed in the autonomous navigation system or path-planned with assigned numerical values,” KB said. “For example, they could press ‘1’ for the kitchen or ‘2’ for the bedroom, and the autonomous wheelchair will take…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 23.55
…Rover missions. The M4 Morphobot is powered by the NVIDIA Jetson platform for artificial intelligence at the edge and robotics. The institute called the robot the M4 because it can fly, drive, walk, and do eight permutations of motion through a combination of its skills. “It grew in the number of functions that we wanted to do,” said Gharib, a professor of aeronautics and bioinspired engineering at Caltech, in a blog post. “When we proposed it to our design team, at first, they all said, ‘No.’” NASA JPL continues development Caltech funded the initial research. NASA and its Jet Propulsion…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 73.16
…much-loved film series. The edge AI Jedi used an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit as the brain of the droid itself. The devkit enables the bot, which is a little less than four feet tall and has a simple webcam for eyes, to identify and move its head toward objects. Vuksic — originally from Croatia and now based in Malmö, Sweden — recently traveled with the pit droid across Belgium and the Netherlands to several tech conferences. He presented to hundreds of people on computer vision and AI, using the droid as an engaging real-world demo. A self-described Star…