Nvidia is teaming up with Neura Robotics in developing a humanoid robot developer program that could be the precursor to robotics use in the home as well as improved cognitive recognition for industry and manufacturing.
In the agreement, Nvidia’s Jetson Thor module will be used with cognitive solutions from Neura Robotics to enhance on-device artificial intelligence (AI). This would be used across robot portfolios including its LARA series of industrial robots and cobots, mobile robots and manipulators and a 4NE-1 humanoid robot.
Meanwhile, Nvidia is rolling out new options for a suite of services, models and computing platforms to train, develop and build the next generation of humanoid robots. The company is offering three new services:
- Microservices and frameworks for robot simulation and learning.
- Orchestration service for running multi-stage robotics workloads.
- AI- and simulation-enabled teleoperation workflow to train robots.
Called Nvidia OSMO, the cloud-native managed service allows users to orchestrate and scale complex robotics development workflows across resources. The technology simplifies robot training and simulation workflows, cutting deployment and development cycle times from months to under a week, Nvidia said.
Using this technology, users can visualize and manage tasks like:
- Generating synthetic data
- Training models
- Conducting reinforcement learning
- Implementing software-in-the-loop testing at scale for humanoid, mobile robots and industrial manipulators
