Nvidia Going All Robot, All the Time

Most AI platform suppliers have been obsessed lately with autonomous vehicles. This week, Nvidia escalated the obsession by spreading the epidemic to "autonomous machines." At Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference held here, CEO Jensen Huang wound up and pitched Nvidia AGX, a series of embedded AI high-performance computers built around Nvidia's new Xavier processors, for a host of robotic and autonomous machines. Phil Magney, founder and principal advisor at VSI Labs, called Nvidia "shrewd" to extend the reach of the architecture, since most competitors are focusing exclusively on automated cars. "As we know, there are lots of human driven machines out there where removing the operator is the goal. Nvidia's new partners in Japan have their bases covered with these announcements."