On the afternoon of March 18, local time in the United States, the global attention Nvidia 2024GTC conference opened in SAP Field in SAN Jose, California. At the meeting, Nvidia founder Jen-Hsun Huang delivered GTC 2024’s keynote speech “Witnessing the transformative Moment of AI.” In the two-hour speech, Huang introduced Nvidia’s latest research and development progress around five major sectors: New industry developments, the Blackwell platform, innovative software NIMs, AI platform NEMO and AI foundry services, as well as the simulation platform Omniverse and Isaac Robotics platform for autonomous mobile robots. For Nova Carter AMR, the autonomous mobile robot platform jointly built with Company Nine, a new developer kit Nova Orin was released, aiming to simplify the secondary development process of robots, improve development efficiency, or will promote the development of the entire autonomous mobile robot industry.

STD720-E1HS4AS-1 Photo: Huang Renxun introduces the Isaac Robotics platform for autonomous mobile robots

As one of Nvidia’s important technology release platforms every year, GTC is recognized by the industry as the “AI vane”, and Nvidia CEO Huang Renxun’s keynote speech is of concern to the public. The conference is the first time GTC returned to the offline after 5 years, attracting many industry experts in the field of artificial intelligence, robotics and other cutting-edge technologies to attend, and the current most advanced AI and robotics technology and products for on-site display and exchange.

Nova Orin: An integrated computing and sensing solution that simplifies the AMR development process

The developer suite Nova Orin released this time is also responsible for the development and production of No. 9 company, NVIDIA is responsible for providing software and computing support, mainly deployed in the autonomous robot platform Nova Carter AMR jointly developed by Shuangfa, while improving product performance and expanding scene coverage. It can greatly simplify the secondary development process of owner-occupied mobile robots and improve the development efficiency. There were also related products on display at CES 2024.

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Nova Orin integrates a large number of Nine’s smart mobility technologies in the field of robotics and comes preloaded with NVIDIA Isaac platform components (including sensor drivers, nominal calibration files, and the NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor package). The Isaac Perceptor stack allows users to experience it directly, allowing it to be equipped with more sensors to improve 3D perception and give the robot a more accurate and richer understanding of its surroundings. At the same time, Nvidia’s advanced hardware acceleration algorithm can greatly improve the speed of the processor, providing up to 275 Tera Operations Per Second (TOPS) AI performance and high-bandwidth sensor input, greatly improving product performance. As a result, Nova Orin is more like an all-in-one complete computing and perception solution, ideally suited to solving STD720-E1HS4AS-1 complex AMR challenges in large and highly dynamic environments.

It is worth noting that Nova Orin can help developers shorten the secondary development cycle, accelerate the product market and commercial landing process through fully integrated computing and sensing solutions without sacrificing the simplicity of assembly and calibration. At the same time, with the hardware and software tools provided by Nova Orin, It can be applied to a variety of application scenarios such as automatic guided vehicles, autonomous forklifts, indoor and outdoor distribution robots.

For a long time, the development of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) has been very time-consuming and labor-intensive, from 0-1 development costs are high, which has become a major obstacle to the commercialization of intelligent AMRs. The Nova Carter AMR provides a low-cost and efficient platform for secondary deployment of robotic products. Today, the new developer suite Nova Orin will further simplify the deployment process of AMRs, improve the scene coverage capability and comprehensive performance of robots, accelerate the commercial landing of the robot industry, and is a strategic expansion of the accessibility of advanced robot development.

From this point of view, the nine company and NVIDIA based on each other’s strong cooperation in hardware and software level, or will set off a new wave of robot development. “We are working with Nvidia to broaden the boundaries of what is possible for AI robots, and the emergence of Nova Carter AMR represents a key step in reducing the early development time and cost of robots,” said Nine company officials at the GTC site. “We have received insightful feedback from developers, and today’s Nova Orin suite is our response to accelerate the delivery of innovative applications from our customers, while building on Nine’s proven supply chain system with over 10 million units of production capacity and global market channels, we will also help third-party robotics companies more smoothly expand their operations.”