Nvidia, the company which is renowned for making smartphone and PC Graphics Processing Units, is increasingly investing in evolving technologies such as self-driving and drones. The company has partnered with retailer JD.com for an outdoor robotics initiative, which will use drones for making deliveries, helping in rescue operations and agriculture. The retail giant's innovation lab, JD X has created two new robots called the JDrone and JDrover. While the JDrone will be an autonomous aerial vehicle, the JDrover will be a ground-based drone and will use the Nvidia Jetson platform for embedded artificial intelligence (AI) based navigational intelligence to navigate different terrains. "Complex outdoor situational awareness requires a platform that delivers unprecedented capabilities for deep learning and visual processing in a small form factor. The high performance of Jetson combined with its low power consumption and cost was the reason why we selected it for all of our logistics and delivery initiatives," Yuqian Li, head of JDrover team at JD X stated in a press release.