Embedded Computing

Robots’ Holiday Wishes Come True: NVIDIA Jetson Platform Offers High-Performance Edge AI at Festive Prices

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Developers, researchers, hobbyists and students can take a byte out of holiday shopping this season as NVIDIA has unwrapped special discounts on the NVIDIA Jetson family of developer kits for edge AI and robotics — available through Sunday, Jan. 11. Whether tapping into the breakthrough capabilities of Jetson AGX Thor, the versatility of Jetson AGX
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AI-Powered Mobile Clinics Deliver Breast Cancer Screening to India’s Rural Communities

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An unassuming van driving around rural India uses powerful AI technology that’s enabling low-cost, high-quality breast cancer screenings for thousands of women. Run by the nonprofit Health Within Reach Foundation, the Women Cancer Screening Van runs an AI solution by MedCognetics, a Dallas, Texas-based company that’s part of the NVIDIA Inception program for startups. The
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NVIDIA Jetson Thor Unlocks Real-Time Reasoning for General Robotics and Physical AI

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Robots around the world are about to get a lot smarter as physical AI developers plug in NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules — new robotics computers that can serve as the brains for robotic systems across research and industry. Robots demand rich sensor data and low-latency AI processing. Running real-time robotic applications requires significant AI compute
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Making Safer Spaces: NVIDIA and Partners Bring Physical AI to Cities and Industrial Infrastructure

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Physical AI is becoming the foundation of smart cities, facilities and industrial processes across the globe. NVIDIA is working with companies including Accenture, Avathon, Belden, DeepHow, Milestone Systems and Telit Cinterion to enhance operations across the globe with physical AI-based perception and reasoning. The continuous loop of simulating, training and deploying physical AI offers sophisticated
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Researchers and Students in Türkiye Build AI, Robotics Tools to Boost Disaster Readiness

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Since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Syria and Türkiye two years ago — leaving 55,000 people dead, 130,000 injured and millions displaced from their homes — students, researchers and developers have been harnessing the latest AI robotics technologies to increase disaster preparedness in the region. The work is part of a Disaster Response Innovation and Education
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That’s One Smart Hospital! Taiwan Medical Centers Deploy Life-Saving Innovations With NVIDIA System-Builder Partners

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Leading healthcare organizations across the globe are using agentic AI, robotics and digital twins of medical environments to enhance surgical precision, boost workflow efficiency, improve medical diagnoses and more. Physical AI and humanoid robots in hospitals have the potential to automate routine tasks, assist with patient care and address workforce shortages. This is especially crucial
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Wandercraft Begins Clinical Trials for Physical AI-Powered Personal Exoskeleton

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For Nicolas Simon, advancing the field of robotics is a personal mission that could change his siblings’ lives. Two-thirds of Simon’s family members use wheelchairs due to mobility challenges related to Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, an inherited genetic condition. As an engineering student and robotics club chair at France’s École Polytechnique, he saw the opportunity to build
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Japan Develops Next-Generation Drug Design, Healthcare Robotics and Digital Health Platforms

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To provide high-quality medical care to its population — around 30% of whom are 65 or older — Japan is pursuing sovereign AI initiatives supporting nearly every aspect of healthcare. AI tools trained on country-specific data and local compute infrastructure are supercharging the abilities of Japan’s clinicians and researchers so they can care for patients,
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High-Speed AI: Hitachi Rail Advances Real-Time Railway Analysis Using NVIDIA Technology

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Hitachi Rail, a global transportation company powering railway systems in over 50 countries, is integrating NVIDIA AI technology to lower maintenance costs for rail operators, reduce train idling time and improve transit reliability for passengers. The company is adopting NVIDIA IGX — an industrial-grade, enterprise-level platform that delivers high-bandwidth sensor processing, powerful AI compute, functional
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Putting More Tech to the Test, NVIDIA Certifies New Categories of Gen AI-Ready Systems

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Fueled by generative AI, enterprises globally are creating “AI factories,” where data comes in and intelligence comes out. Critical to this movement are validated systems and reference architectures that reduce the risk and time involved in deploying specialized infrastructure that can support complex, computationally intensive generative AI workloads. At the COMPUTEX trade show, NVIDIA today
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NVIDIA and Alphabet’s Intrinsic Put Next-Gen Robotics Within Grasp

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Intrinsic, a software and AI robotics company at Alphabet, has integrated NVIDIA AI and Isaac platform technologies to advance the complex field of autonomous robotic manipulation. This week at the Automate trade show, in Chicago, Intrinsic is spotlighting leaps in robotic grasping and industrial scalability assisted by foundation models enabled by NVIDIA Isaac Manipulator, unlocking
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Boom in AI-Enabled Medical Devices Transforms Healthcare

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The future of healthcare is software-defined and AI-enabled. Around 700 FDA-cleared, AI-enabled medical devices are now on the market — more than 10x the number available in 2020.   Many of the innovators behind this boom announced their latest AI-powered solutions at NVIDIA GTC, a global conference that last week attracted more than 16,000 business leaders,
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Johnson & Johnson MedTech Works With NVIDIA to Broaden AI’s Reach in Surgery

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AI — already used to connect, analyze and offer predictions based on operating room data — will be critical to the future of surgery, boosting operating room efficiency and clinical decision-making. That’s why NVIDIA is working with Johnson & Johnson MedTech to test new AI capabilities for the company’s connected digital ecosystem for surgery. It
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Robo Rendezvous: Robotics Innovators and AI Leaders to Converge at NVIDIA GTC

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Bringing together pioneers in robotics and AI, NVIDIA GTC will be a state-of-the-art showcase of applied AI for autonomous machines. The conference, running March 18-21 at the San Jose Convention Center and online, boasts a star-studded lineup. This includes a fireside chat with Marc Raibert, executive director of The AI Institute, and Dieter Fox, senior
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Beyond ‘Data-Driven’: How Energy-Efficient Computing for AI Is Propelling Innovation and Savings Across Industries

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With advances in computing, sophisticated AI models and machine learning are having a profound impact on business and society. Industries can use AI to quickly analyze vast bodies of data, allowing them to derive meaningful insights, make predictions and automate processes for greater efficiency. In the public sector, government agencies are achieving superior disaster preparedness.
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Cool Robots of 2023: Meet the Autonomous Movers and Shakers

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Outside the glare of the klieg lights that ChatGPT commanded this year, a troupe of autonomous machines nudged the frontiers of robotics forward. Here are six that showed special prowess — swimming, diving, gripping, seeing, strolling and flying through 2023. A Media Darling at CES Ella — a smart stroller from startup Glüxkind Technologies, of Read article >

17 Predictions for 2024: From RAG to Riches to Beatlemania and National Treasures

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Move over, Merriam-Webster: Enterprises this year found plenty of candidates to add for word of the year. “Generative AI” and “generative pretrained transformer” were followed by terms such as “large language models” and “retrieval-augmented generation” (RAG) as whole industries turned their attention to transformative new technologies. Generative AI started the year as a blip on Read article >

For the World to See: Nonprofit Deploys GPU-Powered Simulators to Train Providers in Sight-Saving Surgery

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GPU-powered surgical-simulation devices are helping train more than 2,000 doctors a year in lower-income countries to treat cataract blindness, the world’s leading cause of blindness, thanks to the nonprofit HelpMeSee. While cataract surgery has a success rate of around 99%, many patients in low- and middle-income countries lack access to the common procedure due to Read article >