Nvidia's Jetson platform can power drones with good artificial intelligence

Nvidia unveiled its Jetson TX2 platform to power drones with good artificial intelligence. The platform includes the Jetson TX2 "embedded AI supercomputer," a chip and its surruonding hardware that can power 4K video drones that consume only about 7.5 watts of power. Drones with the TX2 solution can operate two cameras simultaneously. The Jetson 3.0 platform was designed for AI "at the edge" of the network, rather than in the cloud, or Internet-connected data center. Drones with cameras can capture a huge amount of data. This means Jetson has to handle a lot of the processing of data at the edge, in the device itself, rather than transferring all of that data to the cloud, said Deepu Talla, vice president and general manager of Nvidia's Tegra business unit, at a press event in San Francisco.