NVIDIA recently released the new platform 'Isaac' for next-generation autonomous machines, which implements artificial intelligence for robots in manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, construction, and other industries, including a complete set of hardware, software, and virtual world robot simulators.
Huang Renxun said: “AI is the most powerful technology in our era. The first phase of artificial intelligence will achieve a new level of software automation, which will help improve productivity in many industries; then, artificial intelligence combined with sensors and actuators, Will become the core of a new generation of autonomous machines. One day, billions of smart machines will be used for manufacturing, door-to-door service, warehouse logistics and other fields.
At the heart of NVIDIA Isaac is the Jetson Xavier Computing Platform, the world’s first computer designed for robots, with more than 9 billion transistors, 30 trillion operations per second, more than workstations, and only 3 points of energy for lighting bulbs. one.
Jetson Xavier has six high-performance processors, including One Volta Tensor Core GPU, one 8-core ARM64 CPU, two NVDLA deep learning accelerators, one image processor, one visual processor, and one video processor.
These processors enable them At the same time, dozens of algorithms are processed in real time , for sensor processing, ranging, positioning and mapping, vision and perception, and path planning, allowing robots to take input from the sensor, position itself, perceive its environment, identify and predict the motion of nearby objects, infer rational actions and perform safely .
On the software side, the Jetson Xavier toolkit supports simulation, training, verification, and deployment throughout the process, including:
Isaac SDK : A set of APIs and tools to develop robotic algorithm software and runtime frameworks with fully accelerated libraries.
Isaac IMX : Isaac Smart Machine Acceleration Application is a collection of robotic algorithm software developed by NVIDIA.
Isaac Sim : A highly realistic virtual simulation environment where developers can train autonomous machines and use the Jetson Xavier for hardware-in-the-loop testing.
NVIDIA Jetson Xavier Developer Kit (Software and Hardware) Pricing USD 1299 , The first shipment will begin in August.
