NVIDIA
Announces Availability of Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit to Advance Robotics and
Edge AI
One Million Developers Now Deploying
on Jetson; Microsoft Azure, John Deere, Medtronic, Amazon Web Services, Cisco,
Hyundai Robotics, JD.com, Komatsu, Meituan Among Leading Adopters
NVIDIA
announced the availability of the NVIDIA®
Jetson AGX Orin™ developer kit, the world’s most powerful, compact
and energy-efficient AI supercomputer for advanced robotics, autonomous
machines, and next-generation embedded and edge computing.
Jetson
AGX Orin delivers 275 trillion operations per second, giving customers over 8x
the processing power of its predecessor, Jetson AGX Xavier, while maintaining
the same palm-sized form factor and pin compatibility — all at a similar price.
It features an NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU, Arm Cortex-A78AE CPUs,
next-generation deep learning and vision accelerators, high-speed interfaces,
faster memory bandwidth and multimodal sensor support to feed multiple,
concurrent AI application pipelines.
“As AI
transforms manufacturing, healthcare, retail, transportation, smart cities and
other essential sectors of the economy, demand for processing continues to
surge,” said Deepu Talla, vice president of Embedded and Edge Computing at
NVIDIA. “A million developers and more than 6,000 companies have already turned
to Jetson. The availability of Jetson AGX Orin will supercharge the efforts of
the entire industry as it builds the next generation of robotics and edge AI
products.”
Customers
using Jetson AGX Orin can leverage the full NVIDIA
CUDA-X™ accelerated computing stack, NVIDIA JetPack™ SDK, pretrained models from the NVIDIA NGC™ catalog and the latest frameworks and
tools for application development and optimization such as NVIDIA Isaac™ on Omniverse™, NVIDIA Metropolis, and NVIDIA TAO Toolkit. This reduces time and cost for
production-quality AI deployments, allowing developers to access the largest,
most complex models needed to solve robotics and edge AI challenges in 3D
perception, natural language understanding, multisensor fusion and more.
Broad
Customer and Ecosystem Support
Jetson AGX Orin has received strong feedback from the robotics and embedded
computing ecosystem, including Microsoft Azure, John Deere, Medtronic Digital
Surgery, AWS, Hyundai Robotics, JD.com, Komatsu, Meituan and many more.
- “We are extending the
powerful Microsoft Azure platform to the intelligent edge. Combining
Azure’s advanced capabilities with performance and software development
tools such as NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin helps give developers a seamless
experience to easily build, deploy and operate production-ready AI
applications.” — Roanne Sones, corporate vice president, Microsoft
Azure Edge + Platforms
- “With the global population
expected to reach nearly 10 billion people by 2050, farmers have a steep
challenge of feeding the world and they can’t do it alone. With less
available land and labor, and many variables to work through, deploying
and scaling advanced technology like autonomy is key to building a
continually smart, evolving and more efficient farm. Our fully autonomous
tractor, featuring two NVIDIA Jetson GPUs for quick and accurate image
classification at the edge, will be on farms this year, supporting farmers
in overcoming challenges and providing for our growing world.” — Jahmy
Hindman, chief technology officer at John Deere
- "As a recognized
medical technology leader, Medtronic continues to innovate and advance
solutions to improve surgical patient care. We recognize the key role for
AI in digitization of surgery through quantitative analytics and real-time
clinical decision support systems. The latest NVIDIA Jetson platform
brings us a new level of computational performance in the operating room
and enables us to advance intraoperative systems to better support
surgeons, through data-enabled solutions.” — Dan Stoyanov, chief
scientific officer at Medtronic Digital Surgery
- “Advances in edge AI and
robotics are reshaping entire industries by overcoming rising costs and
limitations in labor and materials. Every industry will benefit from AI
and robotics in the future, and 2022 is proving to be a key tipping point.
Combined with NVIDIA pretrained AI models, frameworks like TAO toolkit and
Isaac on Omniverse, and supported by the Jetson developer community and
its partner ecosystem, Jetson AGX Orin offers a scalable AI platform with
unmatched resources that make it easy to adapt to almost any application.”
— Jim McGregor, principal analyst at TIRIAS Research
The
Jetson™ embedded computing partner ecosystem encompasses a broad range of
services and products, including cameras and other multimodal sensors, carrier
boards, hardware design services, AI and system software, developer tools and
custom software development.
Source:NVIDIA media announcement
