Nvidia Unveils Isaac Platform With Xavier Soc For Autonomous Industrial Robots

Nvidia has introduced the Isaac platform. This platform is based on Nvidia’s Jetson Xavier soc and is intended for a new generation of autonomous, industrial robots that can be used, for example, in manufacturing, logistics or construction.

Nvidia is releasing some software products for the new robotics platform, including a collection of APIs and tools to develop software for creating robotic algorithms. In addition, Nvidia is coming with a virtual simulation environment for the Isaac platform in which developers can test autonomous machines. According to Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, the Isaac platform is “the first computer for intelligent robots.” A developer kit will ship from August and will cost $1299.

The heart of the Isaac platform is the Jetson Xavier soc, which consists of more than 9 billion transistors and can perform 30 trillion operations per second. Announced back in 2016, the Xavier soc is the successor to Nvidia’s PX2 platform and specializes in training neural networks.

In addition, there is an octacore 64-bit arm CPU, two deep learning accelerators and an image, vision and video processor on the soc. According to Nvidia, this means that the Xavier-soc is able to process several dozen algorithms simultaneously and in real time, for example for quickly processing the information from motion sensors, determining the position or plotting a route.

Jetson Xavier-soc