COMPUTEX -- NVIDIA today announced that
the world’s leaders in robot development are adopting the NVIDIA
Isaac™ robotics platform for the research, development and
production of the next generation of AI-enabled autonomous machines
and robots.
BYD Electronics, Siemens, Teradyne Robotics and Intrinsic, an
Alphabet company, are among more than a dozen robotics industry
leaders globally that are integrating NVIDIA Isaac accelerated
libraries, physically based simulation and AI models into their
software frameworks and robot models to make factories, warehouses
and distribution centers highly efficient and safer for their human
coworkers, and act as intelligent assistants for repetitive or
ultra-precise tasks.
“The era of robotics has arrived. Everything that moves will one
day be autonomous,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
“We are working to accelerate generative physical AI by advancing
the NVIDIA robotics stack, including Omniverse for simulation
applications, Project GR00T humanoid foundation models and the
Jetson Thor robotics computer.”
The Isaac platform features a suite of NVIDIA-accelerated
libraries, AI foundation models and simulation technologies that
are available today to robot makers to integrate into their
technology stacks.
- NVIDIA Isaac ROS — a collection of
modular ROS 2 packages that brings NVIDIA-acceleration and AI
models to ROS community developers.
- NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor — a reference workflow built on Isaac
ROS that provides multi-camera, 3D surround-vision capabilities for
AI-based autonomous mobile robots.
- NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator — a reference workflow built on Isaac
ROS that simplifies development of AI-enabled robot arms, or
manipulators, that can seamlessly perceive, understand and interact
with their environments.
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ — a reference application for
simulating, testing and validating robots in physically based
environments, and for generating synthetic data, based on the
NVIDIA Omniverse™ platform.
- NVIDIA Isaac Lab — a reference
application in Isaac Sim optimized for reinforcement, imitation and
transfer learning for AI robot foundation model training.
Isaac Ecosystem Rapidly ExpandsNVIDIA Isaac’s
early adopters are leaders in robotics and autonomous machine
development across Asia, Europe and North America.
Siemens, global leader in industrial automation software and
systems, is using NVIDIA Isaac Sim for its powerful
software-in-the-loop capabilities. The Isaac technologies
accelerate Siemens development and testing of advanced robotics
skills such as SIMATIC Robot PickAI (PRO) and SIMATIC Robot Pack
AI. The AI vision software provides cognitive AI-driven
capabilities and enables industrial robot systems to autonomously
and reliably pick-and-pack arbitrary items without any prior
training of the AI by the user. The companies plan to expand their
partnership and announce new capabilities later this year at the
SPS Expo.
Siemens delivers industrial-grade AI and is pushing it to the
forefront of robotics by seamlessly integrating with automation
solutions and making it easy to use when deployed on a
NVIDIA-powered Siemens industrial PC foundation, bringing vision AI
to the ecosystem of industrial robots.
“AI-powered robots will accelerate the digital transformation of
industry and take over repetitive tasks that were previously
impossible to automate so we can unlock human potential for more
creative and valuable work,” said Roland Busch, president and CEO
at Siemens AG. “Together with NVIDIA, Siemens is empowering our
customers and partners to use AI to create new innovations,
incorporate them as part of their industrial automation solutions
and drive efficiency and competitive advantage.”
Intrinsic, a software and AI robotics subsidiary of Alphabet
that acquired the Open Source Robotics Corporation in late 2022,
has successfully tested Isaac Manipulator in its robot-agnostic
software platform. Intrinsic has demonstrated, using Manipulator,
the potential for a scalable, universally applicable
robotic-grasping skill to work across grippers, environments and
objects.
“We couldn’t have found a better collaborator in NVIDIA, who are
helping to pave the way for foundation models to have a profound
impact on industrial robotics,” said Wendy Tan White, CEO of
Intrinsic. “As our teams work together on integrating NVIDIA Isaac
and Intrinsic’s platform, the potential value we can unlock for
millions of developers and businesses is immense.”
BYD Group has a strong manufacturing footprint across four major
industries, including electronics, automotive, new energy and rail
transportation worldwide. Its one subsidiary, BYD Electronics
(BYDE), a global leading provider of high-tech and innovative
products, is developing a full range of autonomous mobile robots
that provide factories with complete logistics solutions using
NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Perceptor.
“BYDE has a strong focus on helping customers accelerate
deployment of logistics applications,” said Chris Yotive, senior
business development director of BYD Electronics. “In collaboration
with NVIDIA, we have developed advanced autonomous mobile robots
powered by NVIDIA Isaac that will improve worker safety, reduce
production costs and enhance production intelligence for our
customers.”
Universal Robots (UR) and Mobile Industrial Robots (MiR),
Teradyne Robotics companies, are using NVIDIA Isaac to integrate AI
into automation. UR is integrating Isaac Manipulator into its
PolyScope X software platform to unlock new cobot solutions. MiR is
leveraging Isaac Sim to generate synthetic data and simulate its
MiR1200 Pallet Jack for real-world deployments.
“The key to tackling our customers’ challenges in robotics lies
in the industry’s ability to work together, in one collective
effort,” said Ujjwal Kumar, group president of Teradyne Robotics.
“With NVIDIA Isaac’s advanced AI and simulation capabilities
plugged into our large installed base of autonomous mobile robots
and cobots, we will push the envelope of innovation to achieve
swift solutions for multiple industries.”
The NVIDIA Isaac platform is modular, enabling companies to
adopt individual or several technologies together.
Companies leveraging Isaac Perceptor for development of advanced
perception-based autonomous mobile robots include: ArcBest, BYD
Electronics, Gideon, idealworks and RGo Robotics.
Companies leveraging Isaac Manipulator for building AI-based
robotic arms include: Solomon, Techman Robot, Vention and
Yaskawa.
Over 100 companies are adopting Isaac Sim to simulate, test and
validate robotic applications, including Hexagon, Husqvarna Group
and MathWorks. Isaac Lab is being adopted by Agility, Boston
Dynamics, Figure AI, Fourier Intelligence and Sanctuary AI.
Robotics Innovation in Action at Computex In
his COMPUTEX keynote, Huang demonstrated robots used in
transportation, healthcare and industrial manufacturing. In one
demonstration, Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics
manufacturer, showcases a fully simulated autonomous factory in
NVIDIA Omniverse, featuring fleets of AI robots developed by NVIDIA
robotics partners, based on NVIDIA Isaac.
Watch Huang’s COMPUTEX keynote to get the latest on AI and more.
Read more about the updates available now to the NVIDIA Isaac
platform.
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