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 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…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 0.93
…ROS-based applications and will be available in the next Isaac ROS Developer Preview in late June, he said. Type adaptation eliminates processing overhead While hardware accelerators often require data to be translated into another format to deliver optimal performance, type adaptation (REP-2007) allows ROS nodes to work in the format best suited for the hardware, wrote Andrews in a blog post. “This allows a processing pipeline, a graph of nodes, using the adapted type to eliminate memory copies between the CPU and the memory accelerator,” he said. “Unnecessary memory copies consume CPU compute, waste power, and slow down performance, especially…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.79
…of its Jetson AGX Orin developer kit and its Isaac Nova Orin architecture for autonomous mobile robots. “Modern fulfillment centers are evolving into technical marvels — facilities operated by humans and robots working together,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. He said new processors, software, and simulation capabilities will lead to “the next wave of AI,” including robots able to “sense, plan, and act.” NVIDIA claimed its invention of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999 “sparked the growth of the PC gaming market and has redefined modern computer graphics, high-performance computing, and artificial intelligence.” The Santa Clara,…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 2.87
…can enable greater efficiency. NVIDIA Corp. today introduced its Isaac AMR platform, which extends the company's toolkit for building and deploying robotics applications, bringing mapping, site analytics, and fleet optimization onto NVIDIA EGX servers. “Isaac AMR is built on NVIDIA AI and Isaac Sim on Omniverse and is deployed with Fleet Command,” said Richard Kerris, vice president of Omniverse at NVIDIA. Omniverse is the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company's scalable reference development platform using multiple graphics processing units (GPUs) for 3D simulation and collaborative design. Robot fleets to benefit from optimization The number of sites deploying autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) will…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.12
…your organization's biggest accomplishments this past year? Gopalakrishna: NVIDIA Isaac Sim on Omniverse is now available to roboticists worldwide. Customers, developers, and researchers can accelerate robotics development as they leverage the high-fidelity PhysX engine and photorealistic environments. In partnership with Open Robotics, NVIDIA announced support for the Robot Operating System (ROS) and ROS2, and we launched the Isaac ROS library, which includes highly performant robotics and AI algorithms. More on NVIDIA and Robotics 10 Technologies for Autonomous Vehicle, Robotics Developers From NVIDIA's GTC 2021 Ottonomy Develops Autonomous Robots for Indoor and Outdoor Deliveries Top Three Trends With the Current Iteration…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 1.25
…NVIDIA announced the Omniverse Replicator synthetic-data generation engine for Isaac Sim for robotics and NVIDIA Drive for autonomous vehicles. It demonstrated a mobile robot trained with a model built in Replicator. The company generated more than 90,000 images for the demonstration. It also used the new Omniverse Farm to manage the GPU (graphics processing unit) compute resources that created the dataset. Despite the limitations of lidar, the robot was able to avoid colliding with a forklift. “Improving performance for challenging AI-based computer vision applications requires large and diverse datasets that replicate the inherent distribution of the target domain,” said NVIDIA.…
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 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 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 0.33
…open it to millions more developers and users. NVIDIA's Isaac Sim engine, which is built on Omniverse, can be used to create digital twins for training a wide range of robots. The open-source Blender 3D animation tool will now have Universal Scene Description (USD) support, enabling artists to access Omniverse production pipelines. Adobe is collaborating with NVIDIA on a Substance 3D plugin that will bring Substance Material support to Omniverse, unlocking new material editing capabilities for Omniverse and Substance 3D users. NVIDIA Omniverse is intended to enable designers, artists, and reviewers to work together in real time in a shared…
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,”…