Land of Robots Meets AI at GTC Japan 2018

The intersection of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to transform advanced manufacturing, so it's not surprising that robotics was a major theme of GTC Japan 2018. NVIDIA's 10th annual GPU technology conference in the country focused on addressing the rapidly growing AI needs of Japan's manufacturing leaders. Where GTC 2018 Silicon Valley focused on training performance, this conference also emphasized technologies to deliver the inferencing performance necessary for autonomous robots and vehicles. NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang announced a range of new products including NVIDIA AGX embedded AI computers for autonomous machines and the NVIDIA Tensor T4 GPU and TensorRT software for inferencing. Attendance and interest in the show has grown steadily every year.