Generalist robotics have arrived, powered by advances in mechatronics and robot AI foundation models. But a key bottleneck remains: robots need vast training data for skills like assembly and inspection, and manual demonstrations aren’t scalable. The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T-Dreams blueprint, built on NVIDIA Cosmos, solves this challenge by generating massive synthetic trajectory data from just a single…
]]>Welcome to the first edition of the NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2). This technical blog series will give developers and researchers deeper insight and access to the latest physical AI and robotics research breakthroughs across various NVIDIA Research labs. Developing robust robots presents significant challenges, such as: We address these challenges through…
]]>Humanoid robots are designed to adapt to human workspaces, tackling repetitive or demanding tasks. However, creating general-purpose humanoid robots for real-world tasks and unpredictable environments is challenging. Each of these tasks often requires a dedicated AI model. Training these models from scratch for every new task and environment is a laborious process due to the need for vast task…
]]>At CES 2025, NVIDIA announced key updates to NVIDIA Isaac, a platform of accelerated libraries, application frameworks, and AI models that accelerate the development of AI robots. NVIDIA Isaac streamlines the development of robotic systems from simulation to real-world deployment. In this post, we discuss all the new advances in NVIDIA Isaac: NVIDIA Isaac Sim is a reference…
]]>Join NVIDIA experts and Metropolis partners on Sept. 22 for webinars exploring developer SDKs, GPUs, go-to-market opportunities, and more. All three sessions, each with unique speakers and content, will be recorded and will be available for on-demand viewing later. Register Now >> Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 1 PM PDT Wednesday, September 22, 2021…
]]>David Niewinski of Dave’s Armoury won the ‘Jetson Project of the Month’ for building a robot arm capable of playing a perfect game of cornhole. The robot runs on an NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier Developer Kit and can throw a perfect cornhole game. For the uninitiated, Cornhole is a lawn game popular in the United States where players take turns using their aim and motor skills to throw bags of…
]]>Steve Chang won the Jetson Project of the Month for Dragon Eye – an electronic judging system for glider races. The project, which runs on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit, helps count completed laps of a radio controlled slope glider on a course. F3F is a timed speed competition for radio-controlled gliders. The goal of each pilot is to fly the glider ten laps on a 100-meter course in the…
]]>Satinder Singh won the Jetson Project of the Month for DeepWay, an AI-based navigation assistance system for the visually impaired. The project, which runs on an NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit, monitors the path of a person and provides guidance to walk on the correct side and avoid any oncoming pedestrians. In addition to the Jetson Nano, Satinder’s setup includes an Arduino Nano…
]]>James Bruton of XRobots was awarded the ‘Jetson Project of the Month’ for OpenDog V2. This project uses the NVIDIA Jetson Nano Developer Kit to recognize hand gestures and control a robot dog without a controller. James, a robot inventor, thought it’d be nice if his OpenDog robot responded to hand gestures. To make this happen, he used transfer learning to retrain an existing SSD-Mobilenet…
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