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Nvidia reached out to makers with a late Valentine’s gift today, the launch of the budget-friendly Jetson Nano, a single-board computer geared for robotics and AI. The previous three generations of Jetson AI cores have been at the heart of many industrial robots, but their price tags have put them out of reach of many hobbyists and makers.
The new Jetson Nano runs the same software as these higher-end boards but comes in a smaller package with lower wattage requirements and with a Maker-friendly $99 price tag.(We’ve gotten our hands on a Jetson Nano and look forward to doing a full review shortly.)
The introduction of the Jetson Nano at Nvidia’s GTC keynote was quickly followed by the announcement of their new robotics programming library, “Isaac.” Isaac comes with the ability to simulate an entire environment around the robot, “Isaac-Gym”. The goal is to create robot-controlling AIs that can learn by steering a simulated robot in a simulated world. Training robots in a simulated environment should be faster…
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