News

Nvidia hits $1 trillion market cap

Source: CNBC, May 30, 2023 [1]
hit a $1 trillion market cap at the open Tuesday, joining a small club of mostly technology companies. Nvidia’s shares have to hold above $404.86 to maintain that distinction throughout the day.

Britain unveils $1.2B strategy to boost computer chip industry

Source: AP NEWS, May 19, 2023 [2]
Britain's government unveils a semiconductor strategy, providing up to £1 billion in government investment for the industry over the next decade, focusing on research, development, design, intellectual property, and cutting-edge compound semiconductors.

April 2023 Robotics Investments Total $1.63 Billion

Source: Robotics Business Review, May 29, 2023 [3]
Robotics investment for April 2023 amounted to $1.63B, the result of 47 funding rounds. Total robotics investment for 2023 equals approximately $3.3B.

AMD rolls high-performance processors for automotive usage

Source: eeNews Europe, May 25, 2023 [4]
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and automated driving require increasingly powerful and sophisticated edge sensors that also generate even larger amounts of data. To meet these market demands, AMD is introducing two new products in the Automotive XA Artix+ UltraScale+ family.

Understanding the geopolitics of the microchip

Source: EL PAÍS English, May 24, 2023 [5]
The global tug-of-war is measured in nanometers. Economic and military might increasingly depend on high-end semiconductors, 90% of which are produced in Taiwan. The U.S., China and the EU are making moves to avoid losing the battle.

Develop a multi-robot environment with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, ROS, and nimbus

Source: NVIDIA Technical Blog, May 29, 2023 [6]
The need for a high-fidelity multi-robot simulation environment is growing rapidly as more and more autonomous robots are being deployed in real-world scenarios. In this post, I will review what we used in the past at Cogniteam for simulating multiple robots, our current progress with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and how Nimbus can speed up the development and maintenance of a multi-robot simulation with Isaac Sim.

NVIDIA brings advanced autonomy to mobile robots with Isaac AMR

Source: NVIDIA Blog, May 28, 2023 [7]
Isaac AMR is moving into early access with customers, and Nova Orin-based reference robots are becoming available for evaluation.

Step into the future of industrial-grade edge AI with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin industrial

Source: NVIDIA Technical Blog, May 28, 2023 [8]
Embedded edge AI transforms industrial environments, enabling real-time processing and sensor fusion in various sectors. NVIDIA's Jetson AGX Orin Industrial module enhances performance in harsh environments.

Papers

Towards a fleet of autonomous haul-dump vehicles in hybrid mines

Source: ResearchGate, 2023 [9]
The mining industry is transforming towards sustainable, decarbonized operations with smaller environmental footprints. This paper presents an approach for autonomous hauling vehicles in hybrid mines, using a ROS 2-based architecture and deep learning network. The vehicles are tested in simulation and real-world experiments.

Energy efficient low-latency signed multiplier for FPGA based hardware accelerators

Source: TIJER Research Journal , April , 2023 [10]
Multiplication in multimedia processing and artificial neural networks is a significant energy consumption, critical path latency, and resource utilization issue. This paper presents an area-optimized, low-latency, and energy-efficient architecture for exact signed multipliers.

Previous Hardware Acceleration in Robotics Newsletters

Past ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration Working Group meetings

  1. Goswami, R. (2023, May 30). Nvidia hits $1 trillion market cap. CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/30/nvidia-on-track-to-hit-1-trillion-market-cap-when-market-opens.html ↩︎

  2. Britain unveils $1.2B strategy to boost computer chip industry. (2023, May 19). AP NEWS. https://apnews.com/article/computer-chips-semiconductor-strategy-britain-75a38608b059773f0c1b130c482df84e ↩︎

  3. Kara, D. (2023, May 29). March 2023 robotics investments total US $526 million. Robotics Business Review. https://www.roboticsbusinessreview.com/investment/april-2023-robotics-investments-total-1-63-billion/ ↩︎

  4. Hammerschmidt, C. (2023, May 25). AMD rolls high-performance processors for automotive usage. eeNews Europe. https://www.eenewseurope.com/en/amd-rolls-high-performance-processors-for-automotive-usage/ ↩︎

  5. Rizzi, A. (2023, May 24). Understanding the geopolitics of the microchip. EL PAÍS English. https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/understanding-the-geopolitics-of-the-microchip.html ↩︎

  6. Ari, Y. (2023, May 29). Develop a multi-robot environment with NVIDIA Isaac Sim, ROS, and nimbus. NVIDIA Technical Blog. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/develop-a-multi-robot-environment-with-nvidia-isaac-sim-ros-and-nimbus/ ↩︎

  7. Sundaram, S. (2023, May 28). NVIDIA brings advanced autonomy to mobile robots with Isaac AMR. NVIDIA Blog. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/05/28/isaac-amr-nova-orin-autonomous-mobile-robots/ ↩︎

  8. Subramaniam, L., & Hariharapura, S. (2023, May 28). Step into the future of industrial-grade edge AI with NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin industrial. NVIDIA Technical Blog. https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/step-into-the-future-of-industrial-grade-edge-ai-with-nvidia-jetson-agx-orin-industrial/ ↩︎

  9. Ferrein, A., Reke, M., Scholl, I., Decker, B., Limpert, N., Nikolovski, G., & Schiffer, S. (2023). Towards a fleet of autonomous haul-dump vehicles in hybrid mines. ResearchGate. https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Stefan-Schiffer-2/publication/369018510_Towards_a_Fleet_of_Autonomous_Haul-Dump_Vehicles_in_Hybrid_Mines/links/641338c492cfd54f84062d68/Towards-a-Fleet-of-Autonomous-Haul-Dump-Vehicles-in-Hybrid-Mines.pdf ↩︎

  10. Bhargavi, Y., Shanin, S., Deedepya, Y., Upendra, S., & Samreen, S. (2023, April). Energy efficient low-latency signed multiplier for FPGA based hardware accelerators. TIJER Research Journal . https://www.tijer.org/papers/TIJER2304170.pdf ↩︎