Recently, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of American tech company NVIDIA, took the stage at the Computex 2018 tech conference to announce two new products designed to make it easier (and less expensive) for developers to create and train intelligent robots: Jetson Xavier and NVIDIA Isaac. As per an NVIDIA press release, Jetson Xavier is the world's first computer designed specifically for robotics. It includes 9 billion transistors and six processors, including a Volta Tensor Core GPU and an eight-core ARM64 CPU. That means the computer can process 30 trillion operations per second (TOPS) (in comparison, the most powerful iMac on the market can process up to 22 max, and costs about $5,000). Not to mention that Jetson Xavier needs less than half the electricity you'd need to power a light bulb, which could mean a lot for the advent of more advanced, and more accessible, robots.

The first major event at Computex Taipei 2017 was the Powering The AI Revolution keynote by NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang. Although the keynote was heavy on artificial intelligence technologies like NVIDIA Isaac and NVIDIA Volta, Jensen also announced other technologies like GeForce GTX with Max-Q Design. In this 90 minute long keynote, Jensen reveals the future of artificial intelligence and robotics. In that vision, the GPU is taking over from the CPU in delivering the petaflops of computing power required to deliver artificial intelligence. He reveals the new NVIDIA technologies that will power the next-generation AI applications – the new NVIDIA Tesla V100, which is the largest GPU ever made, and the NVIDIA HGX server that hosts eight of these GPUs to deliver almost 1 petaflops of compute performance in a single chassis!