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NVIDIA’s new AI brain for robots is six times more powerful than its predecessor

NVIDIA’s $1,100 AI brain for robots goes on sale

You aren’t about to buy one, but it could be influential.

Jon Fingas
J. Fingas
December 13th, 2018
NVIDIA's new AI brain for robots is six times more powerful than its predecessor | DeviceDaily.com
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NVIDIA’s plan to power autonomous robots has kicked off in earnest. The company has released a Jetson AGX Xavier Module that gives robots and other intelligent machines the processing oomph they need for their AI ‘brains.’ You’re not about to buy one yourself — it costs $1,099 each in batches of 1,000 units. However, it could be important for delivery robots and other automatons that need a lot of specialized performance with relatively little power use.

The Jetson Xavier system-on-chip at the heart of the module relies on no less than six processors to get its work done. There’s a relatively conventional eight-core ARM chip, but you’ll also find a Volta-based GPU, two NVDLA deep learning chips and dedicated image, video and vision components. This is while it uses “as little as” 10W of power. All told, it can juggle many AI-oriented tasks at once (30 trillion computing operations per second, to be exact) in a relatively compact space.

NVIDIA already as a number of customers lined up, including Chinese shopping giant JD.com (delivery bots), Yamaha (drones) and Nanopore (DNA sequencing). Although it’s far from certain that this module will make NVIDIA a staple of the robotics scene, it at least signals that the company is serious about sticking around.

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