Computex—NVIDIA today announced the availability
of NVIDIA® Isaac™, a new platform to power the next generation of
autonomous machines, bringing artificial intelligence capabilities
to robots for manufacturing, logistics, agriculture, construction
and many other industries.
Launched at Computex 2018 by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen
Huang, NVIDIA Isaac includes new hardware, software and a
virtual-world robot simulator.
“AI is the most powerful technology force of our time,” said
Huang. “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.”
Jetson XavierAt the heart of NVIDIA Isaac is
Jetson™ Xavier™, the world’s first computer designed specifically
for robotics. With more than 9 billion transistors, it delivers
over 30 TOPS (trillion operations per second) — more processing
capability than a powerful workstation while using a third the
energy of a lightbulb.
Jetson Xavier has six kinds of high-performance processors — 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. These enable dozens of algorithms to be processed
concurrently and in real time for sensor processing, odometry,
localization and mapping, vision and perception, and path planning.
This level of performance is essential for a robot to take input
from sensors, locate itself, perceive its environment, recognize
and predict motion of nearby objects, reason about what action to
perform and articulate itself safely.
Isaac Robotics SoftwareNVIDIA provides a
toolbox for the simulation, training, verification and deployment
of Jetson Xavier. This robotics software consists of:
- Isaac SDK – a collection of APIs and tools to
develop robotics algorithm software and runtime framework with
fully accelerated libraries.
- Isaac IMX – Isaac Intelligent Machine
Acceleration applications, a collection of NVIDIA-developed
robotics algorithm software.
- Isaac Sim – a highly realistic virtual
simulation environment for developers to train autonomous machines
and perform hardware-in-the-loop testing with Jetson Xavier.
Changing What’s Possible for Variety of
IndustriesWith this level of AI computing power at the
edge, autonomous machines can perceive the world around them with
superhuman capabilities, detecting and recognizing their
surroundings from sensors of all kinds.
Manufacturing robots can work safely alongside humans and adapt
to changes. Logistics robots can efficiently move and manage
inventory and deliver products to homes. Service robots can improve
the retail experience and assist the sick and elderly.
AvailabilityThe NVIDIA Jetson Xavier developer
kit, which includes the Isaac robotics software, will be priced at
$1,299, with early access starting in August from distributors
worldwide.
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About NVIDIA NVIDIA‘s (NASDAQ:NVDA) invention
of the GPU in 1999 sparked the growth of the PC gaming market,
redefined modern computer graphics and revolutionized parallel
computing. More recently, GPU deep learning ignited modern AI — the
next era of computing — with the GPU acting as the brain of
computers, robots and self-driving cars that can perceive and
understand the world. More information at
http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/.
For further information, contact:Kristin
UchiyamaSr. PR Manager, Autonomous MachinesNVIDIA Corporation(408)
313-0448kuchiyama@nvidia.com
Certain statements in this press release including, but not
limited to, statements as to: the benefits, impact, abilities,
performance and availability of NVIDIA Isaac, Jetson Xavier and
NVIDIA’s Isaac robotics software; NVIDIA Isaac powering the next
generation of autonomous machines and bringing artificial
intelligence to many industries; AI being the most powerful
technology force of our time, it enabling new levels of software
automation to boost productivity in many industries, it becoming
the brain of a new generation of autonomous machines, and that
there someday will be billions of intelligent machines in
manufacturing, home delivery, warehouse logistics and more; AI
computing enabling autonomous machines to perceive the world around
them, and enabling robots to work safely with humans, adapt to
changes, move and manage inventory and deliver products to homes,
improve the retail experience and assist the sick and elderly are
forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different
than expectations. Important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially include: global economic conditions;
our reliance on third parties to manufacture, assemble, package and
test our products; the impact of technological development and
competition; development of new products and technologies or
enhancements to our existing product and technologies; market
acceptance of our products or our partners’ products; design,
manufacturing or software defects; changes in consumer preferences
or demands; changes in industry standards and interfaces;
unexpected loss of performance of our products or technologies when
integrated into systems; as well as other factors detailed from
time to time in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, or SEC, including its Form 10-Q for the fiscal
period ended April 29, 2018. Copies of reports filed with the SEC
are posted on the company’s website and are available from NVIDIA
without charge. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees
of future performance and speak only as of the date hereof, and,
except as required by law, NVIDIA disclaims any obligation to
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circumstances.
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NVIDIA logo, Isaac, Jetson and Xavier are trademarks and/or
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