Nvidia powers up drones, robots with Jetson TX1 board

Nvidia hopes to equip drones and robots with high-performance computing capabilities with its new Jetson TX1 developer kit announced on Tuesday. The kit includes an uncased board with all major components on it. It's the size of a credit card, but with 1 teraflop of horsepower delivers more performance than other developer boards available today. Robots and drones require autonomous and smoother navigation capabilities, and the TX1 will help enable such capabilities, said Jesse Clayton, product manager at Nvidia. Robots and drones will be able to recognize objects and avoid collisions using "deep-learning" algorithms and image processing engines on the board, Clayton said.