Found in Robotics Companies & Businesses, with a score of 53.21
NVIDIA is the pioneer of GPU-accelerated computing. The company said its invention of the graphics processing unit (GPU) in 1999 redefined computer graphics and gaming, ignited the era of modern AI, and fueled the creation of the industrial metaverse. The GPU now acts as the “brains” of robots, autonomous machines, and self-driving vehicles that can perceive and understand the world around them. NVIDIA is now a full-stack computing company with data center-scale offerings that it said are reshaping industry. NVIDIA offers robotics-focused products and solutions from the cloud to edge—including the Isaac and Jetson platforms for edge AI, robots, computer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 51.51
Before a robot can navigate, it needs to know where it is. The NVIDIA Isaac™ ROS Map Localization package provides a GPU-accelerated node to find the position of the robot relative to a lidar occupancy map. In this webinar, we’ll present how this package works, and how to use it for initial localization of your robot.
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 49.20
…GPU technology in a way that will benefit you more than ever before. At the forefront, you’ll discover BOXX NVIDIA-powered solutions purpose-built for your specific workflow. By attending this webinar, you’ll learn: How simulation software is in the midst of a dramatic transformation to real-time Why product design and engineering workflows are now more streamlined, driven by advancements in VR, raytracing, and generative design How state-of-the-art solutions from BOXX, powered by NVIDIA GPUs, accelerate workflows and drive product development productivity. To register, click here. Sponsored by: Speakers: Tim Lawrence Founder BOXX Technologies Mike Geyer Industry Marketing NVIDIA Moderator: Kenneth Wong…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 47.84
NVIDIA has expanded the NVIDIA Jetson AI at the Edge platform with an entry-level developer kit priced at just $59, opening the potential of AI and robotics to a new generation of students, educators and hobbyists. The Jetson Nano 2GB Developer Kit is designed for teaching and learning AI by creating hands-on projects in such areas as robotics and intelligent IoT. To support the effort, NVIDIA also made available free online training and AI-certification programs, which will supplement the many open-source projects, how-tos and videos contributed by thousands of developers in the Jetson community. The NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB Developer…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 46.27
A year ago, NVIDIA paid $6.9 billion to buy Mellanox, an interconnect solutions provider. This week, the company announced it's ready to pay roughly six times that amount—$40 billion—to buy the UK-based Arm, known for its energy-efficient microprocessor technology. Both acquisitions point to the GPU maker's ambitious plans and aggressive moves to dominate the emerging AI (artificial intelligence) market. NVIDIA to purchase UK-based Arm for $40 billion. Image courtesy of NVIDIA. An AI School Run by NVIDIA UK-based Arm is owned by the Japanese telecommunication giant SoftBank. SoftBank paid $32 billion to purchase it in 2016. In June, news emerged…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 45.76
…MATLAB” course is now available, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA’s Deep Learning Institute. The two-day course is being offered in instructor-led online and self-paced on-demand formats throughout the rest of 2020. On completion, engineers, scientists and researchers will be ready to apply GPU-accelerated deep learning techniques in MATLAB to common applications such as image classification, autonomous systems, voice recognition, and object detection. For dates and locations, visit the Deep Learning with MATLAB course schedule. MathWorks provides a comprehensive platform for building AI-driven systems that is based on decades of supporting complex engineering projects. GPU Coder generates optimized CUDA code from…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 45.33
NVIDIA has announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., for a transaction value of $7 billion. The acquisition, initially announced on March 11, 2019, unites two of the leading companies in high performance and data center computing. Combining NVIDIA’s computing expertise with Mellanox’s high-performance networking technology, the move will enable customers to achieve higher performance, greater use of computing resources and lower operating costs. “The expanding use of AI and data science is reshaping computing and data center architectures,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies from AI…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 42.64
…location-aware artificial perception platform, recently announced the integration of NVIDIA Isaac robotics technologies into RGo Robotics platforms to help advance AI-powered automation. The companies made the announcement at COMPUTEX in Taipei. Perception Engine & NVIDIA integration RGo's Perception Engine, a deployed vision and AI offering for localization, obstacle detection and scene understanding, will integrate NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor technologies to provide advanced vison capabilities to AI-based autonomous mobile robots. This integrated software stack is compatible with the newly released NVIDIA Nova Orin Developer Kit. Using RGo's perception offering with NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, running on NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules, customers can deploy…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 42.25
Microway is delivering a NVIDIA DGXTM A100 system to a higher education institution in the United States. DGX A100 is a 5 petaflops AI system to consolidate the power and capabilities of an entire data center, supporting analytics, training and inference in a single flexible platform. The University of Florida will install multiple DGX A100 systems to accelerate AI research as the university works to infuse AI across its curriculum. The systems will be used to explore and validate how new technology can meet the University of Florida's advanced research and education projects in artificial intelligence and deep learning—including on…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 42.20
…Manufacturing Automation Platform (MAP), recently announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to bring industrial automation technology to small and medium manufacturers by using NVIDIA AI and accelerated computing to advance cloud robotics. This announcement made during COMPUTEX 2024 in Taiwan, marks a year of collaborative efforts from Vention to leverage artificial intelligence to simplify industrial automation and robotic projects, from the design of equipment up to their operations. Vention MAP looks to use NVIDIA AI to simplify UX Vention's cloud-first MAP is inherently AI-enabled, drawing on a proprietary dataset of several hundred thousand robot cell designs created since the company's founding.…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 41.12
NVIDIA has announced the NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD Solution for Enterprise, a turnkey AI infrastructure, making it possible for organizations to install AI supercomputers with speed. Available in cluster sizes ranging from 20 to 140 individual NVIDIA DGX A100 systems, DGX SuperPODs are now shipping and expected to be installed in Korea, the U.K., Sweden and India before the end of the year. Sold in 20-unit modules interconnected with NVIDIA Mellanox HDR InfiniBand networking, DGX SuperPOD systems start at 100 petaflops of AI performance and can scale up to 700 petaflops to run the most complex AI workloads. “Traditional supercomputers can…
Found in Robotics News & Content, with a score of 41.02
NVIDIA has introduced the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, the first member of the RTX 3060 family, powered by the NVIDIA Ampere architecture and the second generation of NVIDIA RTX. Priced at $399, built on a PC gaming platform and featuring ray tracing and AI-powered DLSS, the RTX 3060 Ti is faster than the previous generation GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, priced at $699, and delivers 1080p and 1440p gameplay. “We’re entering a massive holiday season with ray-traced effects coming to Cyberpunk 2077, Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, Watch Dogs: Legion and more,” says Matt Wuebbling, VP of global GeForce…