Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.65
…edge AI and robotics as well as the NVIDIA Isaac simulation platform. In other partnership news, Numurus LLC last week announced that it has joined the NVIDIA Metropolis partner program for vision AI applications. The Seattle-based company incorporates NVIDIA CUDA-X software libraries, the JetPack development environment, Nsight developer tools, and Jetson system-on-modules within its product line. Future integration with the NVIDIA TAO Toolkit and DeepStream SDK will enable developers to build AI models and manage datasets even more rapidly, said the companies. RoboSense, a developer of solid-state smart lidar systems, said it has integrated its second-generation model into Omniverse for…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.69
…a tablet device or with access to simulation from Isaac Sim, powered by NVIDIA Omniverse. Design robots in simulation for real-world deployments READY Robotics said it is making design work easier for non-programmers, helping to validate robots and systems for accelerated deployments. The startup said it is developing Omniverse Extensions — Omniverse kit applications based on Isaac Sim — and can deploy them on the cloud. It also uses Omniverse Nucleus, the platform’s database and collaboration engine, in the cloud. Isaac Sim is NVIDIA's application framework that enables simulation training for testing out robots in virtual production lines before deployment…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.92
…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 offer hardware accelerators. They also…
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 3.99
…for multibillion-dollar industries. Soft Robotics Inc. is using NVIDIA Isaac Sim to close the simulation-to-reality gap in pick-and-place operations for packaged food. “We’re selling the hands, the eyes, and the brains of the picking solution,” said David Weatherwax, senior director of software engineering at Soft Robotics. Unlike other industries that have adopted robotics, the $8 trillion food market has been slow to develop robots to handle variable items in unstructured environments, said Bedford, Mass.-based Soft Robotics. Founded in 2013, the company recently secured $26 million in Series C funding from Tyson Ventures, Marel, and Johnsonville Ventures. Getting a grip with…
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 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 2.97
…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 to NVIDIA. “It'll soon be available in the new NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud platform, a suite of…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 3.63
…for fulfillment and manufacturing. They are also using NVIDIA Isaac Sim for simulation in robot design. Fraunhofer IML's goal is to ease the transition from automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to faster-moving autonomous mobile robots (AMRs). This advancement in automation promises to significantly accelerate logistics, said the Dortmund, Germany-based institute. “We’re heading the research aspects for AMRs, and we’re looking at how we can go as fast and as safely as possible in logistics scenarios,” said Julian Eẞer, a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at Fraunhofer IML. Joseph Fraunhofer was a 19th-century pioneer in optics for telescopes who brought together scientific…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.97
…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 app,” they wrote in a blog post. “As roboticists leverage AI to create better perception stacks for their robots, they will increasingly rely on synthetic data,” said Gerard Andrews, senior product marketing manager for robotics at NVIDIA. “In this blog, we give a technical walkthrough of how to generate a quality dataset to help spot recognize doors in an indoor office environment.” “Synthetic data will increasingly become a critical…
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 0.98
…support READY’s global expansion and speed up the integration and deployment of the READY Robotics Forge/OS with NVIDIA Omniverse Isaac Sim, the companies said.