INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Today at Computex in Taipei, Nvidia CEO and founder Jensen Huang announced the availability of a drastically upgraded version of Issac
Nvidia calls the next-gen robotics system the next step in autonomous machines as it reportedly brings AI capabilities to a new set of
industries.
The company has been talking about this platform some time, touting its capabilities and use cases
A Jetson Xavier SoC provides the processing with more than 9 billion transistors, it delivers over 30 TOPS (trillion operations per second)
Inside the Xavier is a Volta Tensor Core GPU, an eight-core ARM64 CPU, dual NVDLA deep learning accelerators, an image processor, a vision
processor and a video processor.
The platform developer kit will be available in August for $1,299 and includes the Isaac robotics
software.
AI is the most powerful technology force of our time,& said Huang in a released statement
&Its first phase will enable new levels of software automation that boost productivity in many industries
Next, AI, in combination with sensors and actuators, will be the brain of a new generation of autonomous machines
Someday, there will be billions of intelligent machines in manufacturing, home delivery, warehouse logistics and much more.
The Isaac
Robotics Software includes the Isaac SDK, a collection of APIs and tools to develop robotic algorithm software, the Isaac IMX,
Nvidia-developed robotics software, and the Isaac Sim, a virtual simulation software to train autonomous machines.
The availability of the
developer kit should mark a turning point of robotics development
It provides serious processing power and capabilities in a ready-made package.
