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.