Nvidia announced major updates to the NVIDIA Isaac Robotics platform today at ROSCon 2023. The platform delivers performant perception and high-fidelity simulation to robotics developers worldwide. These updates include the release of NVIDIA Isaac ROS 2.0 and NVIDIA Isaac Sim 2023.1 and perception and simulation upgrades that simplify building and testing performant AI-based robotic applications for ROS developers.
Many companies are developing robots and automation solutions following a simulation-first approach. This requires high-fidelity simulation to validate design and throughput before building the solution.
Isaac ROS 2.0
As robotics evolves toward higher levels of autonomy and the proliferation of diverse sensor technologies continues, the constraints of CPU-bound processing become evident. Accelerated computing has emerged as a natural solution to overcome these bottlenecks. Isaac ROS brings much-needed accelerated computing capabilities to the ROS community, enabling the development of next-generation robotics solutions. Beyond offering a collection of accelerated ROS packages, NVIDIA also collaborates closely with Open Robotics to enhance the efficiency of the middleware itself. To learn more, see Improve Perception Performance for ROS 2 Applications with NVIDIA Isaac Transport for ROS
Developers worldwide leverage Isaac ROS for high-performance robotics solutions across diverse domains including agriculture, warehouse automation, last-mile delivery, and service robotics, among others.
Growing adoption of AI in robotics is set to accelerate automation across industries, from manufacturing to logistics to automotive. The challenge for those developing and testing AI models for robotics perception or control is often data scarcity. High-fidelity simulation is the key technology to address this scarcity.
Isaac Sim 2023.1
Built on NVIDIA Omniverse, Isaac Sim is a robotics simulator for developing, training, testing, and deploying AI-enabled robots. Powerful built-in capabilities include NVIDIA Omniverse Replicator for generating synthetic data, and Omniverse Isaac Gym for GPU-accelerated reinforcement learning.
Isaac Sim also includes accurate sensor simulations for most of the popular sensors available today. It supports ROS and ROS 2 and can additionally be controlled from a Python script.
The release of Isaac Sim 2023.1 provides many new features and improvements to advance AI-based robots.
To learn more, register for the upcoming Isaac ROS webinar, Need for Noetic Speed: Bringing NITROS to ROS. Join NVIDIA at ROSCon 2023 for the latest announcements, demos, contests, and partner news. And check out the NVIDIA speakers and panelists at RoboBusiness 2023.
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