GTC Offers Educational Sessions to Meet Exponential Demand for AI and Robotics Skills

The demand for specialization in AI and robotics is growing more than ever. Roles in these two fields are multiplying across many industries, with titles such as AI specialist and robotics engineer, respectively, placing as the first- and second-fastest emerging jobs in the U.S., according to the most recent Emerging Jobs Report from LinkedIn. With Read article >

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Hands-On AI: Duckietown Foundation Offering Free edX Robotics Course Powered by NVIDIA Jetson Nano 2GB

For many, the portal into AI is robotics. And one of the best ways to get good at robotics is to get hands on. Roll up your sleeves, because this week at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, the Duckietown Foundation announced that it’s offering a free edX course on AI and robotics using the Duckiebot hardware Read article >

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Researchers and Robots Swarm Japan’s RoboCup Competition

Some robots played soccer. Others tackled picking and packing duties in a simulated warehouse. Still others competed to see which could tackle household chores, like setting the table. 100,000 spectators — including 3,000 students and scientists — joined thousands of robots like these last week in Nagoya, Japan, for RoboCup 2017, the world’s largest robotics […]

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At GTC, Glimpse the Future of Makers, Intelligent Machines and More

They’re coming by air, land and sea. Drones, robots, underwater submersibles — even an AI city, or at least the applications that power it — will all be under one roof at our GPU Technology Conference, at the San Jose Convention Center from May 8-11. Lots to Do with a GPU At the eighth annual […]

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Latest NVIDIA JetPack Developer Tools Double Deep Learning Performance

It just got a whole lot easier to add complex AI and deep learning abilities to intelligent machines. All it takes is NVIDIA JetPack 2.3, available for free download today. Our latest software suite of developer tools and libraries for the Jetson TX1 takes the world’s highest performance platform for deep learning on embedded systems […]

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St. Louis Spectacular: Student Robot Builders Battle in FIRST Medieval-Themed Competition

More than 20,000 student inventors and their armed robots battled for medieval-themed strongholds over four days of brisk competition at last week’s FIRST Championship. Five of the 20 high school teams we backed in this year’s competition were among the 600 teams in St. Louis for the finals with their battle-ready robots. At stake: $25 […]

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Looks, Ma, No Hands! 3 Unmanned Systems Companies to Watch at Xponential 2016

With the exploding popularity of robots, drones and other unmanned systems, there are few better places to see the latest in autonomous technology than at Xponential, the world’s premier gathering of the people who design and build it. NVIDIA is at this week’s conference in force, showcasing our Jetson TX1 embedded platform in booth 1231 […]

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Check Out These 7 Hot Intelligent and Autonomous Machines Sessions at GTC 2016

From research labs to cutting-edge startups to commercial construction sites, intelligent and autonomous machines rely on GPUs to perform. Visual computing is powering advances in computer vision, autonomous navigation, facial recognition, behavioral analysis, and related applications. Join us to learn about the state of the art from the brightest minds in the field at next […]

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Get Your Hands on Robots and Drones at SX Create 2016

Attention, hardware hackers and makers: We’re bringing the best of DIY intelligence to SX Create this weekend. Our Embedded Computing team is heading to Austin, Texas, March 11-13, with some of our favorite robots, drones and industry experts in tow to join the other exhibitors and enthusiasts shaping the future of new technologies. Whether you… Read More

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