News

India’s robot installations hit an all-time high

Source: The Robot Report, May 4, 2023 [1]
India's industrial robot sales have reached a new record with 4,945 units installed in 2021, a 54% increase from 2020. The automotive industry is the largest customer, with an average annual growth rate of 16% since 2016. Other significant robot buyers include the metal industry, rubber and plastics industry, and electrical and electronics industry.

Nvidia business model

Source: Business Model Analyst, May 7, 2023 [2]
In this article, we’ll discuss everything you need to know about Nvidia’s business model, including how this tech giant makes money, its competition, and opportunities, among other things.

India surging up the industrial robot ranks

Source: Asia Times, May 10, 2023 [3]
Modi’s ‘Make in India’ initiative has helped to catapult the country to 10th in industrial robot installations.

ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #22

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 9, 2023 [4]
Join the exciting ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group on its 22nd meeting to discuss how hardware acceleration and custom compute architectures can speed up robotics. The goal of this meeting is to review the progress we have made over the last week and report on the current status of the group. The meeting is scheduled to be 30 minutes.

ROS India Summit 2023

Source: Acceleration Robotics, May , 2023 [5]
RigBetel Labs® and Acceleration Robotics have previously held the ROS India Summit in Pune and ROS developer meetups in Delhi, Bangalore and Pune respectively. The events were a great success with 800+ registrations and 400+ attendees including the presence from companies like Anscer Robotics, Peer Robotics, Flo Mobility, Bosch, AMD, einfochips and researchers from premier institutions like ARTPARK at IISc , IIITH and COEP.

Internet of robotic things market is likely to surpass $210 billion

Source: Robotics & Automation News, May 8, 2023 [6]
The Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) market is likely to surpass $210 billion amid demand for automation in the manufacturing and service sector, according to Future Market Insights.

Why are home robots harder than self-driving cars to build?

Source: DesignNews, May 9, 2023 [7]
Robots for the home and for the road must satisfy human needs. But why is the home a tougher road for robots?

SYCL for GPU-based perception libraries

Source: Weekly Robotics Newsletter, May 6, 2023 [8]
Perception libraries are the visual cortex of the robot, enabling them to make sense of the world around them. With the ever-decreasing cost and rise in power of GPU hardware, and some of the algorithms being “embarrassingly parallelizable”, it is easy to see why more perception algorithms are showing up on GPU. Building customizable perception libraries can be challenging when utilizing existing GPU frameworks focusing on C, such as NVIDIA’s CUDA or OpenCL.

TSMC in talks to build €10B fab in Germany

Source: The Register, May 4, 2023 [9]
TSMC, NXP Semiconductor, Bosch, and Infineon are in talks to build a new fab in Saxony, Germany valued at up to €10 billion. The facility will focus on 28-nanometer chips for the automotive sector, with production of chips for the automotive sector.

Papers

Virtio-FPGA: a virtualization solution for SoC-attached FPGAs

Source: arXiv, April 4, 2023 [10]
FPGA accelerators are becoming increasingly popular due to their high-performance and flexibility features. Virtualization of FPGA resources aims to reinforce these systems with strong isolation, consolidation and security. This paper presents a novel virtualization framework for SoC-attached FPGA devices, using Virtio and Linux VFIO and Device Tree Overlays technologies.

Aerostack2: a software framework for developing multi-robot aerial systems

Source: arXiv, March 31, 2023 [11]
Aerostack2 is a framework for the development of autonomous aerial robotics systems, built on ROS 2 middleware and featuring an efficient modular software architecture. It provides a logical level for specifying missions, reusing components and sub-systems, and enabling complete control architectures, tested in simulation and real flights.

Previous Hardware Acceleration in Robotics Newsletters

  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #58 - Acceleration Robotics hosts ROS developers meet-up in Delhi, India, Global chip sales and wafer shipments drop again in Q1 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #57 - Design IP Sales Grew 20.2% in 2022 after 19.4% in 2021 and 16.7% in 2020, Demand for robot vision system is anticipated to reach $7 billion by 2033 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #56 - EU legislators strike deal on €43B chips plan, Global semiconductor manufacturing equipment sales reach all-time record $108 billion and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #55 - India is the world’s next tech manufacturing hub, EU chips act likely to get green light on April 18 -sources and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #54 - The age of acceleration engines, Keys to using ROS 2 & other frameworks for medical robots, Autonomous mobile robots market expected to expand at 22 percent a year and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #53 - Robotekin, the Basque robotics and automation association, Automotive industry sets record by employing 1M robots and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #52 - Nvidia works with TSMC, ASML and Synopsis on software to speed up chipmaking, Keys to developing autonomous vehicle software and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #51 - PRESS RELEASE: Peer Robotics partners with Acceleration Robotics to bring hardware acceleration to their collaborative AMR, ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group #16 and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #50 - How the EU chips act could build "Innovation capacity" in Europe, How Efinix is conquering the hurdle of hardware acceleration for devices at the edge and more
  • Hardware Acceleration in Robotics #49 - ROS 2 HAWG - meeting #15, 600 for-profit companies using ROS and ROS 2, Acceleration Robotics is growing, January 2023 robotics investments total US $521 million and more

Past ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group meetings

  1. Wessling, B. (2023, May 4). India's robot installations hit an all-time high. The Robot Report. https://www.therobotreport.com/indias-robot-installations-hit-an-all-time-high/ ↩︎

  2. Pereira, D. (2023, May 7). Nvidia business model. Business Model Analyst. https://businessmodelanalyst.com/nvidia-business-model/ ↩︎

  3. Foster, S. (2023, May 10). India surging up the industrial robot ranks. Asia Times. https://asiatimes.com/2023/05/india-surging-up-the-industrial-robot-ranks/ ↩︎

  4. https://www.linkedin.com/events/ros2hardwareaccelerationworking7061747608276377600/about/ ↩︎

  5. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7061941238865813504/ ↩︎

  6. Allinson, M. (2023, May 8). Internet of robotic things market is likely to surpass $210 billion. Robotics & Automation News. https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2023/05/08/internet-of-robotic-things-market-is-likely-to-surpass-210-billion/68148/ ↩︎

  7. Krishnasamy, P. (2023, May 9). Why are home robots harder than self-driving cars to build? designnews.com. https://www.designnews.com/robotics/why-are-home-robots-harder-self-driving-cars-build ↩︎

  8. Dart, B. (2023, May 6). SYCL for GPU-based perception libraries. Weekly Robotics Newsletter | Go, Robots!. https://www.weeklyrobotics.com/articles/2023_05_06_sycl_for_gpu_based_perception_libraries/ ↩︎

  9. Mann, T. (2023, May 4). TSMC in talks to build €10B fab in Germany. The Register: Enterprise Technology News and Analysis. https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/04/tsmc_germany_semiconductor/?utm_source=daily&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_content=article ↩︎

  10. Panagopoulou, A., Paolino, M., & Raho, D. (2023, April 4). Virtio-FPGA: a virtualization solution for SoC-attached FPGAs. arXiv. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.01721.pdf ↩︎

  11. Fernandez-Cortizas, M., Molina, M., Arias-Perez, P., Perez-Segui, R., PErez-Saura, D., & Campoy, P. (2023, March 31). Aerostack2: a software framework for developing multi-robot aerial systems. arXiv.org e-Print archive. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.18237.pdf ↩︎