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NVIDIA Jetson platform now supports AWS Robomaker

By Steve Crowe | March 18, 2019

AWS RoboMaker

There was no shortage of robotics-related announcements today at NVIDIA’s GPU Tech Conference (GTC) in San Jose, California. We will start with NVIDIA’s Jetson AI computer platform adding support for AWS Robomaker, the cloud robotics service from Amazon Web Services.

AWS RoboMaker makes it easier to develop, test and deploy intelligent robotics applications at scale. It includes a development environment to edit and debug robotics applications in the cloud and a simulation service that lets developers fine-tune robotics applications in simulation.

AWS RoboMaker’s over-the-air update system then securely deploys the application to Jetson-powered robots and pushes updates while they’re in use. The result is smart robots that can sense, perceive and take actions, enabling a variety of applications industries, such as manufacturing, retail and healthcare, among others.

“AWS RoboMaker provides pre-built functionality to support customers during their entire project, making it significantly easier to build robots, simulate performance in various environments, iterate faster and drive greater innovation,” said Roger Barga, general manager of AWS Robotics and Automation Services, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “With NVIDIA JetBot and Jetson Nano supported on AWS RoboMaker, robotics developers can use the power of the cloud and deploy on Jetson to speed innovation.”

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“AWS RoboMaker complements our extensive software stack and powerful AI edge computing platform to accelerate robotics for everyone from researchers to makers,” said Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager of Autonomous Machines at NVIDIA. “Now it’s possible to build a wide range of smart robots by developing and simulating in the cloud and then deploying through the powerful Jetson AI at the edge platform.”

Related: Inside NVIDIA’s new robotics research lab

Barga and Talla will both deliver keynotes at the Robotics Summit & Expo, produced by The Robot Report, June 5-6 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston. In the keynote “Bringing AI-Powered Robots to Life,” Talla will dive into the elements required to bring a product to life and describe how it is now faster and easier than ever for companies, researchers, developers, and makers to get up and running with robotics.

Barga’s keynote, called “The Role of the Cloud in the Future of Robotics,” will discuss the role cloud services will play in the future of robotics, allowing developers to partition functionality between their physical robot and the cloud, in particular compute intensive functionality such as machine learning and artificial intelligence. Register for the Robotics Summit & Expo by March 29 to take advantage of early-bird pricing.

NVIDIA Jetson Nano

NVIDIA Jetson Nano devkit (left) and production-ready module. | Credit: NVIDIA

NVIDIA Jetson Nano Platform

NVIDIA also introduced the Jetson Nano, a smaller and less expensive addition to its Jetson family. The NVIDIA Jetson Nano follows the Jetson TX1, Jetson TX2, and Jetson AGX Xavier. The Jetson Nano will be sold in two versions: The NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developers Kit for $99 (quantities of 1000), which is available right now, and the a production-ready module that will be available in June for $129 (quantities of 1000). For comparison, the Xavier retails for $1,299 and TX2 for about $600.

“Jetson Nano makes AI more accessible to everyone – and is supported by the same underlying architecture and software that powers our nation’s supercomputers,” said Talla. “Bringing AI to the maker movement opens up a whole new world of innovation, inspiring people to create the next big thing.”

The Jetson Nano, like its predecessors, will work with NVIDIA’s more than 40 CUDA-X AI deep learning libraries. Jetson Nano supports high-resolution sensors, can process many sensors in parallel, and run multiple modern neural networks on each sensor stream. The CUDA-X AI computer delivers 472 GFLOPS of compute performance for running modern AI workloads and is highly power-efficient, consuming as little as 5 watts.

Here are some of the key specs of NVIDIA Jetson Nano:

  • GPU: 128-core NVIDIA Maxwell architecture-based GPU
  • CPU: Quad-core ARM A57
  • Video: 4K @ 30 fps (H.264/H.265) / 4K @ 60 fps (H.264/H.265) encode and decode
  • Camera: MIPI CSI-2 DPHY lanes, 12x (Module) and 1x (Developer Kit)
  • Memory: 4 GB 64-bit LPDDR4; 25.6 gigabytes/second
  • Connectivity: Gigabit Ethernet
  • OS Support: Linux for Tegra
  • Module Size: 70mm x 45mm
  • Developer Kit Size: 100mm x 80mm
NVIDIA Jetson JetBot

NVIDIA JetBot | Credit: NVIDIA

NVIDIA JetBot

NVIDIA also created a reference platform called the JetBot to “jumpstart the building of AI applications” by minimizing the time spent on hardware assembly. The NVIDIA JetBot is a small mobile robot that can be built with off-the-shelf components. It joins Jetson Quick Start Platforms, which are “ready-to-code” kits built by NVIDIA partners.

Everything about JetBot is open source and supports AWS RoboMaker. The JetBot reference platform can be accessed on GitHub.

About The Author

Steve Crowe

Steve Crowe is Editor of The Robot Report and co-chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo. He joined WTWH Media in January 2018 after spending four-plus years as Managing Editor of Robotics Trends Media. He can be reached at [email protected]

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