Source: Open Robotics, May 25, 2022 [1]
Humble Hawksbill is a long-term support (LTS) release that will be supported until May 2027. This is the first ROS 2 release on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish). Humble support three Tier 1 operating systems: Ubuntu 22.04 Jammy Jellyfish (both arm64 and amd64 architectures) and Windows 10.
Source: NVIDIA Technical Blog, May 24, 2022 [2]
NVIDIA and Open Robotics are introducing two important changes to the Humble ROS 2 release for improved performance. The new ROS 2 Humble hardware-acceleration features are called type adaptation and type negotiation. These additions will significantly increase performance for developers seeking to incorporate AI/machine learning and computer vision functionality.
Source: TechCrunch, May 23, 2022 [3]
FogROS is a cloud-based platform for offloading robotic tasks to a remote server. It's part of the latest version of the open source Robotic Operating System, ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill. Advances to server-side computing can also be applied to robotics operations.
Source: The Register, May 17, 2022 [4]
Intel will contribute to RISC-V as part of its bet that the instruction set architecture will fuel growth for its revitalized contract chip manufacturing business. The chipmaker also launched a $1 billion innovation fund that will support chip designers, including those making components.
Source: NVIDIA Blog, May 23, 2022 [5]
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin-powered production systems unveiled at COMPUTEX in Taipei. Jetson Orin packs 8x processing power of predecessor, NVIDIA AGX Xavier, in the same pin-compatible form factor. New products are coming from Taiwan-based camera, sensor and hardware providers for use in edge AI, robotics and embedded applications.
Source: The Register, May 24, 2022 [6]
Nvidia will introduce a new GPU architecture every two years. Products will be updated in years between the release of new architectures. Intel is again delaying a planned entry to the discrete GPU market.
Source: NVIDIA Blog, May 20, 2022 [7]
Electric vehicle maker NIO is using NVIDIA HGX to build a data center infrastructure for developing AI-powered, software-defined vehicles. With high-performance compute, the automaker can continuously iterate on sophisticated deep learning models. The company has already launched its fully electric, intelligent flagship sedan, the ET7.
Source: TechHQ, May 23, 2022 [8]
AMD will run electronic design automation (EDA) for its chip-design workloads on Google Cloud, , which is expected to further extend the on-premises capabilities of AMD data centers.
Source: The Next Platform, May 20, 2022 [9]
Intel's cross-platform OneAPI aims to simplify development across a broad range of compute engines. The effort, which Intel built as an open standard, comes with a variety of toolkits. There are many things Intel needs to get right with OneAPI if it wants to compete with Nvidia's CUDA.
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [10]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD KR260 board
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [11]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD KV260 board
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [12]
ROS 2 Humble is the latest LTS of the Robot Operating System (ROS), the de facto framework for robot application development. Yocto and ROS 2 allow you to build custom Linux-based production-grade operating systems for robots that obtain best performance for your use case.
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [13]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the AMD ZCU102 board.
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [14]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the NVIDIA Jetson Nano board
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [15]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier board
Source: Acceleration Robotics, May 24, 2022 [16]
This article provides a walkthrough on how to build a Linux operating system with ROS 2 Humble for the Microchip PolarFire Icicle Kit board
Source: Acceleration robotics, May 8, 2022 [17]
Hardware acceleration can revolutionize robotics,enabling new applications by speeding up robot response times while remaining power-efficient. However, the diversity of acceleration options makes it difficult for roboticists to easily deploy accelerated systems without expertise in each specific hardware platform.
Source: Acceleration robotics, May , 2022 [18]
FogROS2 allows roboticists to launch parts of their ROS 2 computational graphs into the cloud while addressing interoperability and scalability issues. Accelerate your ROS graphs with the cloud.
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