AMD Robotics Starter Kit Kick-Starts the Intelligent Factory of the Future
May 17 2022 - 9:01AM
Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announced the Kria™ KR260 Robotics
Starter Kit, the latest addition to the Kria portfolio of adaptive
system-on-modules (SOMs) and developer kits. A scalable and
out-of-the-box development platform for robotics, the Kria KR260
offers a seamless path to production deployment with the existing
Kria K26 adaptive SOMs. With native ROS 2 support, the standard
framework for robotics application development, and pre-built
interfaces for robotics and industrial solutions, the new SOM
starter kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated
applications for robotics, machine vision and industrial
communication and control.
“The Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kits builds on
the success of our Kria SOMs and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit for AI
and embedded developers, providing roboticists with a complete,
out-of-the-box solution for this rapidly growing application
space,” said Chetan Khona, senior director of Industrial, Vision,
Healthcare and Sciences Markets at AMD. “Roboticists will now be
able to work in their standard development environment on a
platform that has all the interfaces and capabilities needed to be
up and running in less than an hour. The KR260 Starter Kit is an
ideal platform to accelerate robotics innovation and easily take
ideas to production at scale.”
With industry analyst firm Omdia forecasting the
robotics components market to grow at a compound annual growth rate
(CAGR) of 20.4 percent between 2019 and 2025, with the overall
world markets revenue to increase to approximately $126 billion by
20251, the Kria KR260 end-to-end adaptive robotics platform is
expected to deliver nearly a 5X productivity gain over competitive,
Nvidia GPU-based solutions2. Additionally, by accelerating the
design cycle compared to chip-down design, the Kria SOM portfolio
typically offers up to a nine-month savings in time-to-deployment,
meaning getting started becomes quick and easy for all kinds of
developers with no FPGA expertise required.
Complete Industrial SolutionThe
KR260 hardware platform provides pre-built interfaces for robotics
and industrial solutions that, combined with a growing list of
accelerated applications delivered via the AMD-Xilinx App Store,
enable easy evaluation and a seamless path to deployment.
Central to the KR260 design experience and
making the benefits of adaptive computing more accessible to the
robotics community is the Kria Robotics Stack (KRS), an integrated
set of robot libraries and utilities that use hardware to
accelerate the development, maintenance and commercialization of
industrial-grade robotic solutions targeting Kria SOMs. The
low-latency, adaptive computing architecture of Kria SOMs
implemented with KRS and ROS 2 can deliver over 8X better
performance/watt3 and up to 3.5X lower latency4 compared to
competitive GPU-based solutions.
The KR260 also includes support for the
widely-adopted Ubuntu embedded operating system, providing
compatibility with the latest long-term support (LTS) versions of
Ubuntu Linux Desktop (22.04) from Canonical and ROS 2 Humble
Hawksbill.
AMD is collaborating with Open Robotics, the
creators of ROS 2 and other open software and hardware platforms
for robotics, to validate and ensure compliance of our ROS 2
implementation for the robotics community.
"The Kria SOM family and KR260 Starter Kit
provide the robotics community with a great combination of
performance, flexibility and rapid development time,” said Brian
Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics. “Users can create
software-defined hardware and build solutions offering high
performance per watt, with security, energy-efficiency and
adaptability. Open Robotics is excited to be collaborating with
AMD-Xilinx to understand and address the needs of roboticists
using hardware acceleration to build new robot applications with
the KR260 development platform.”
Pricing and Availability The
Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit is priced at $349 and is
immediately available from AMD and its network of worldwide
distributors. The KR260 starter kit adds to the available Kria
KV260 Vision AI Starter Kit, providing an easy-to-use development
platform for designing vision applications.
AMD will showcase the Kria products at the 2022
Embedded Vision Summit, May 16-19 at the Santa Clara Convention
Center. Visit the AMD-Xilinx booth #319 to see the latest
technology demonstrations or check out the track session,
“Introducing the Kria Robotics Starter Kit, Robotics and Machine
Vision for Smart Factories” on May 17 at 2:40 p.m. to learn
more.
Supporting Resources
- Learn more at Xilinx.com/robotics
- Learn more about Kria KR260
- Learn more about Kria SOMs
- Become a fan of AMD on Facebook
- Follow AMD on Twitter
About AMD
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in high-performance computing, graphics and visualization
technologies. Billions of people, leading Fortune 500 businesses
and cutting-edge scientific research institutions around the world
rely on AMD technology daily to improve how they live, work and
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Contact:Brian GarabedianAMD
CommunicationsBrian.Garabedian@amd.com(408) 386-4621
1 Market Report: Robotic Components by Tractica
| Omdia, Publication Date: 2Q202 Testing conducted as of December
1, 2021, on a test system comprising Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier
Developer Kit and Jetson Nano Developer Kit using Isaac ROS SDK
4.6.1; Kria KV260 Starter Kit based on Kria K26 SOM, using Vitis
Unified SW Platform 2021.2 and Kria Robotics Stack. Development
time accounts for tool chain setup with ROS 2, cross-compilation of
host code, and creation and build of accelerator implementing two
functions: doublevadd_publisher and
accelerated_doublevadd_publisher available at
https://github.com/ros-acceleration/acceleration_examples. 3
Testing conducted as of February 1, 2022, on a test system
comprising Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit using Isaac ROS
SDK 4.6.1; Kria KV260 Starter Kit based on Kria K26 SOM using Vitis
Unified SW Platform 2021.2 and Kria Robotics Stack. Rectify and
Resize functions from the ROS Perception Stack, available at
https://github.com/ros-acceleration/acceleration_examples, are
accelerated on Kria and Nvidia platforms; power and performance are
measured.4 Testing conducted as of February 1, 2022, on a test
system comprising Nvidia Jetson Nano Developer Kit using Isaac ROS
SDK 4.6.1; Kria KV260 Starter Kit based on the Kria K26 SOM using
Vitis Unified SW Platform 2021.2, and Kria Robotics Stack. Rectify
and Resize functions from the ROS Perception Stack, available at
https://github.com/ros-acceleration/acceleration_examples, are
accelerated on Kria and Nvidia platforms. Execution time is
measured.
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