Faster robots. Faster ROS
Hardware acceleration

Faster robots. Faster ROS
Hardware acceleration

Our mission

Customized brains for robots

Acceleration Robotics is a firm focused on designing customized hardware, or “brains”, that speed up a robot's operation. In particular, the company creates custom compute architectures for high performance robots through hardware acceleration solutions (CPU, FPGAs, GPUs and combinations).

Autonomous Mobility
Industrial Manipulators
Healthcare Robots

News

Acceleration Robotics announces ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS, Boosting ROS 2 Communications from 62x to Thousands-Fold Faster

Unleashing Unprecedented Speed in Robotics, Acceleration Robotics' ROBOTCORE® ROS 2 and RTPS Pave the Way Towards Robot-specific Chips Setting New Benchmarks in Performance, Energy-efficiency and Reliability for ROS 2 Networking.

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Acceleration Robotics unveils ROBOTCORE® UDP/IP for Ultra-Fast, Deterministic Robot Networking Communications

ROBOTCORE® UDP/IP is a Trailblazing FPGA Robot IP Core Resolving Networking Indeterminism in Robotics. With the ability to send or receive small packages in 700 nanoseconds, it outpaces traditional CPU-based solutions dramatically.

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Acceleration Robotics announce and open sources ROBOTCORE®, the first Robotic Processing Unit – specialized in ROS computations

ROBOTCORE® is a processing unit for the robotics architect that maps robotics computations efficiently to its CPUs, GPU and FPGA to obtain faster robots and with additional real-time capabilities.

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Acceleration Robotics collaborating with AMD to design next-generation robotic compute architectures with ROS

Acceleration Robotics, who is one of the groups in the robotics landscape leading the use of hardware acceleration, will collaborate with AMD to develop new compute architectures that empower faster robotic capabilities using AMD?s Adaptive SoCs and SOMs. In particular, both companies will collaborate around the use of FPGA SoCs.

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Products

Robotic Processing Units (RPUs)

RPUs are robot brains, processing units for robots that map efficiently robot behaviors (programmed as ROS computational graphs) to underlying compute resources. They empower robots with the ability to react faster, consume less power, and deliver additional real-time capabilities.

ROBOTCORE®

ROBOTCORE®

A robot-specific processing unit
specialized in ROS computations.
Features 16xCPUs, a GPU and an FPGA.

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Tools and IP Cores for robotics

ROS 2 API-compatible hardware acceleration tools and robot Intellectual Property (IP) cores (IP cores). Increase your robot's performance, including latency, throughput and power efficiency.

ROBOTCORE®
ROS 2

Accelerated ROS 2
network communications.
ROS 2 on FPGA.

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ROBOTCORE®
RTPS

Accelerated DDS
network communications.
DDS-RTPS on FPGA.

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ROBOTCORE®
UDP/IP

Accelerated UDP/IP
networking stack.
UDP/IP on FPGA.

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ROBOTCORE®
Perception

Accelerated ROS 2
robotics perception
stack.

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ROBOTCORE®
Transform

Accelerated ROS 2
coordinate transformations
(tf2).

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ROBOTCORE®
Framework

Hardware acceleration
framework for ROS
and ROS 2.

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ROBOTCORE®
Cloud

Tools to speed-up ROS 2
graphs with the cloud,
and in the cloud.

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Hardware acceleration services

Hardware acceleration will revolutionize robotics, enabling faster robots. However, the diversity of acceleration options makes it difficult for roboticists to easily deploy accelerated systems without expertise in each specific hardware platform.

Our robot hardware acceleration services will help you bring up the full potential of your robots by consulting or designing hardware for you.

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