Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.54
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 35.42
…its fall GPU Technology Conference, or GTC, this week, NVIDIA Corp. announced several new technologies intended to help robotics developers, including enhancements to the Omniverse simulation environment, the Jetson AGX Orin computer, integration with the Robot Operating System, and the NVIDIA DRIVE platform for autonomous vehicle development. For instance, Jetson AGX Orin features high-speed interfaces, faster memory bandwidth, and multimodal sensor support. This enables it to feed multiple concurrent artificial intelligence application pipelines, said NVIDIA. “As robotics and embedded computing transform manufacturing, healthcare, retail, transportation, smart cities, and other essential sectors of the economy, the demand for processing continues to…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.26
…solution powered by Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) and NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networking to deliver a workload-optimized HPC infrastructure, that scales to meet any workload and accelerates time to innovation across HPC initiatives. Penguin Computing TrueHPC delivers a complete software, hardware and management platform built on compute-optimized hardware and Scyld Clusterware orchestration software, the company explains. TrueHPC leverages technologies from AMD, NVIDIA and others to enable a complete technology ecosystem in support of each workload. TrueHPC provides cluster management tools that allow customers to quickly and easily provision technical compute environments, and to efficiently monitor and manage them. TrueHPC…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 35.15
NVIDIA announced at AWS re:Invent that Isaac Sim now runs on Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) G6e instances accelerated by NVIDIA L40S GPUs. And with the NVIDIA OSMO cloud-native orchestration platform, developers can manage their complex robotics workflows across their AWS computing infrastructure. Smoother development options through EC2 Field AI is building robot brains that enable robots to autonomously manage a wide range of industrial processes. Vention creates pre-trained skills to ease the development of robotic tasks. And Cobot offers Proxie, its AI-powered cobot, designed to handle material movement and adapt to dynamic environments, working seamlessly alongside humans. These robotics…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.76
…Group last week announced 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 of global sales at Hesai Technology Co., in a release. Hesai said its products enable advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle (AV) fleets. The Shanghai-based company's technology also empowers robotics applications such as last-mile delivery…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 34.59
NVIDIA makes available a new kind of graphics processing unit-accelerated supercomputer in the cloud on Microsoft Azure. Built to handle demanding artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing applications, the largest deployments of Azure’s new NDv2 instance rank among the world’s fastest supercomputers, offering up to 800 NVIDIA V100 Tensor Core GPUs interconnected on a single Mellanox InfiniBand backend network, NVIDIA reports. It enables customers for the first time to rent an entire AI supercomputer on demand from their desk, and match the capabilities of large-scale, on-premises supercomputers that can take months to deploy. “Until now, access to supercomputers for AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.98
…physics-based simulation tool, according 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 physics-based technical product data from automation technologies such as grippers, said SCHUNK. This will allow for “true virtual commissioning of real-world automation projects,” it said. Simulating process automation with physics-based calculations will result in more accurate…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.75
…help industrial automation address new challenges. Siemens AG and NVIDIA Corp. today announced the expansion of their partnership and plans to first connect the Siemens Xcelerator open digital business platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for 3D design and collaboration. The companies said their collaboration will “enable an industrial metaverse with physics-based digital models from Siemens and real-time AI from NVIDIA in which companies make decisions faster and with increased confidence.” “Siemens and NVIDIA share a common vision that the industrial metaverse will drive digital transformation,” stated Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “This is just the first step…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.48
…software and AI robotics company at Alphabet, has integrated NVIDIA AI and Isaac platform technologies to advance the complex field of autonomous robotic manipulation. At Automate 2024 in Chicago, Intrinsic is spotlighting leaps in robotic grasping and industrial scalability assisted by foundation models enabled by NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator, unlocking new value in industrial automation with AI. Foundation models at heart of data relationships NVIDIA unveiled Isaac Manipulator at GTC in March. Isaac Manipulator is a collection of foundation models and modular GPU-accelerated libraries that help industrial automation companies build scalable and repeatable workflows for dynamic manipulation tasks by accelerating AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.45
…that do not have a lot of robotics experience. NVIDIA Corp. said that it and its partners will show the future of robotics in Munich. Many of the joint demonstrations will feature “easy-to-program and no-code robotics solutions that enable anyone to deploy robots in industrial settings,” the Santa Clara, Calif.-based company said. Wandelbots works with SHL, NVIDIA Omniverse Aldermaston, U.K.-based Silicon Highway (SHL) is an embedded computing distributor and an Elite member of the NVIDIA Partner Network. It is working with Dresden, Germany-based Wandelbots to demonstrate at Automatica how an industrial robot can communicate with its digital twin in NVIDIA…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.42
NVIDIA Corp. today said it will present more than a dozen robotics research papers at this year's IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, or ICRA, which will be held in London from May 29 to June 2. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) will recognize one of the company's papers, titled “Geometric Fabrics: Generalizing Classical Mechanics to Capture the Physics of Behavior,” with an IEEE Best Paper award at ICRA. Papers examine training robots in simulation to work in reality Many of this year’s submissions demonstrate robotics capabilities trained in simulation that were then shown to work…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 33.21
NVIDIA highlighted today one of its NVIDIA Metropolis members, Seoul Robotics. The company is using NVIDIA's technology to retroactively add self-driving features to non-autonomous vehicles without the need for additional sensors onboard. The Seoul, South Korea-based company’s platform, dubbed LV5 CTRL TWR, collects 3D data from the environment using cameras and lidar. Computer vision and deep learning-based AI analyze the data, determining the most efficient and safest paths for vehicles within the covered area. The system takes advantage of a vehicle’s V2X communication system, which comes standard in many modern cars and is used to improve road safety, traffic efficiency,…