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…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…
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…tools such as ROS 2, NVIDIA’s Isaac simulator, and Clearpath’s Outdoor Navigation. The Formant dashboard for remotely operating Boston Dynamics' Spot quadruped robot. Click on image to enlarge. Source: Formant BMW i Ventures leads round BMW i Ventures led Formant's investment, with participation from new investors Intel Capital, GS Futures. Previous investors, including SignalFire, Hillsven, Pelion Ventures, Holman, Ericsson, Goodyear…
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…response to customer requirements. NVentures, NVIDIA’s venture capital arm, and Innovation Endeavors co-led the funding round, according to the announcement. Additional contributions from other new and existing vendors brought the total raised by Machina Labs to $45 million. “With their deep heritage in artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, we are looking forward to NVIDIA’s support as we further develop our…
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…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…
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…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…
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…investors, including Uber Technologies Inc., NVIDIA Corp., and Wavemaker Partners, led the funding. New investors Mark Tompkins and Republic Deal Room also participated. Sarfraz Maredia, vice president of delivery and head of Americas at Uber, has joined Serve’s board, effective July 31. The transaction was sponsored by Montrose Capital Partners. Network 1 Financial Securities (as consulted by Intuitive Venture Partners)…
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…are continuing to rapidly advance. NVIDIA Corp. today announced a major release of its NVIDIA Omniverse software that it said offers new foundation applications and services for developers to enhance and optimize their 3D pipelines with the OpenUSD framework and generative AI. Omniverse is a Universal Scene Description or OpenUSD-native platform for connecting, describing, and simulating across 3D tools and…
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…that it is working with NVIDIA Corp. to integrate its lidar sensors with NVIDIA's DRIVE and Omniverse ecosystems. “By combining our expertise in lidar technology with NVIDIA's world-class simulation and software-development platforms, we can provide developers with invaluable insights and resources for unlocking the full potential of lidar in autonomous driving applications,” said Bob in den Bosch, senior vice president…
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…delved into processing technologies, including NVIDIA graphics processing units (GPUs), field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), and Emergent’s award-winning software and proprietary network interface controllers (NICs). It also discussed how they unlock new capabilities for high-speed imaging, such as zero copy image transfer and GPUDirect. In addition, the company covered the adoption of 10GigE and beyond and presented new high-speed imaging demonstrations…
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…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…
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…also introduces support for the NVIDIA Jetson Orin embedded systems for edge AI and robotics, said Slamcore. It claimed that the release will accelerate the integration of vision in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and enhance safety, efficiency, and return on investment (ROI) in material handling environments. “Until now, we could only offer capabilities like these on a design-by-design basis in…
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…Yang wrote the paper with NVIDIA research scientist Caelan Garrett, SB ’15, MEng ’15, Ph.D. ’21; Tomás Lozano-Pérez and Kaelbling, professors in the MIT Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and CSAIL members; and Dieter Fox, senior director of robotics research at NVIDIA and a professor at the University of Washington. The team was supported by AI Singapore…
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…to the company. It combines NVIDIA Isaac Sim, READY Robotics’ ForgeOS, and SCHUNK’s automation technologies. NVIDIA Isaac Sim is built on NVIDIA Omniverse and is a simulation platform used to develop, test, and deploy robotics applications using artificial intelligence. Its robust physics engine enables detailed, realistic simulations that closely emulate real-world conditions, said NVIDIA. The simulation will be based on…
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…seas of data,” according to NVIDIA Corp. The startup’s nautical data-collection technology has tracked hurricanes in the North Atlantic, discovered a 3,200-ft. underwater mountain in the Pacific Ocean and begun to help map the entirety of the world’s ocean floor. Alameda, Calif.-based Saildrone develops autonomous uncrewed surface vehicles (USVs) that carry a wide range of sensors. NVIDIA Jetson modules process…
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…efficiency, productivity and speed,” said NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang during his latest GTC keynote. How robotics simulation works, in brief An advanced robotics simulator begins by applying fundamental equations of physics. For example, it can use Newton’s laws of motion to determine how objects move over a small increment of time, or a timestep. It can also incorporate physical constraints…
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