Microprocessors / SoCs

March 2024 robotics funding was buoyed by significant investment into software and drone suppliers.

BlackBerry and Advanced Micro Devices said they plan to address the need for ‘hard’ real-time capabilities in robotics-focused hardware.

The first devices in AMD Versal Series 2 target high-efficiency for AI Engines, and Subaru is one of its first customers.

From events like MODEX and GTC to new product launches, there was no shortage of robotics news to cover in March 2024. 

Delta Electronics has developed digital twins with NVIDIA for designing and managing industrial automation and AI data centers.

NVIDIA CEO Jenson Huang wowed the crowd in San Jose with the company’s latest processor, AI, and simulation product announcements.

AMD said the latest addition to its portfolio of FPGAs and adaptive SoCs delivers cost and power-efficient performance. 

Locus Lock has developed software-defined radio to overcome GPS spoofing for more secure autonomous navigation.

AMD Embedded+ combines embedded processors with adaptive systems on chips to shorten edge AI time to market.

The Indy Autonomous Challenge announced a completely new sensor and compute architecture for the AV24 racecar.

SiLC says its new Eyeonic Mini AI machine vision system provides sub-millimeter resolution at a significantly reduced size.

NVIDIA technologies are helping supply chains add new levels of automation, as seen in its work with Adobe, Amazon, and Zipline.

Acceleration Robotics introduced RobotCore ROS 2, a time-sensitive networking solution delivering speeds thousands times faster than current standards.

K24 SOM and KD240 Kit enable the design of power-efficient, production-ready solutions for motor control and digital signal processing applications with a fast time to market

FMCW LiDAR fuses indie’s SuryaTM SoC with SiLC’s EyeonicTM Vision Sensor for 10x performance and cost benefits, integrating photonics.

Inuitive, a Vision-on-Chip processors company, announced the launch of its NU4100, an expansion of its Vision and AI IC portfolio.

Acceleration Robotics and AMD are working together to develop new robotic capabilities for AMD’s Kria system-on-modules.

NVIDIA released Jetson Orin Nano system-on-modules, updated its Nova Orin reference platform for autonomous mobile robots and announced cloud-based availability for its Isaac Sim technology.

The US is restricting the sale of the most powerful artificial intelligence processors to China.

What is the state of the robotics and automation sector at 2022’s midpoint? ABI Research’s Lian Jye Su has a few thoughts, five in fact.

The autonomous vehicle and robotics sectors often employ LiDAR as the primary system navigation sensor. But cameras and vision-based perception will increasingly serve as the technological underpinning for mobile robots going forward.

The Toposens Processing Unit DK makes it easier to integrate the Toposens ultrasonic sensing technology into a customer’s existing platform.