Robotic systems to be enabled by Nvidia Jetson Xavier Computer, Isaac Robotics Software

At the heart of Nvidia Isaac is what the company calls the world’s first computer designed specifically for robotics, Jetson Xavier. With more than 9 billion transistors, it delivers over 30 TOPS (trillion operations per second) more processing capability than a powerful workstation while using a third the energy of a lightbulb.

Jetson Xavier has six kinds of high-performance processors, a Volta Tensor Core GPU, an eight-core ARM64 CPU, dual NVDLA deep learning accelerators, an image processor, a vision processor and a video processor. These enable dozens of algorithms to be processed concurrently and in real time for sensor processing, odometry, localisation and mapping, vision and perception, and path planning. This level of performance is essential for a robot to take input from sensors, locate itself, perceive its environment, recognize and predict motion of nearby objects, reason about what action to perform and articulate itself safely.

Nvidia provides a toolbox for the simulation, training, verification and deployment of Jetson Xavier. This robotics software consists of Isaac SDK, Isaac IMX, and Isaac Sim.