{"id":578268,"date":"2024-03-25T18:38:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T22:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?p=578268"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T13:51:44","slug":"gtc-2024-and-r-24-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/gtc-2024-and-r-24-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"GTC 2024 and R-24 recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1782116577&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc; line-break: anywhere; word-break: normal; overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif; font-weight: 100;\"><a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"The Robot Report Podcast\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/robot-report-podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Robot Report Podcast<\/a> \u00b7 <a style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" title=\"NVIDIA GTC24 and R24 recap\" href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/robot-report-podcast\/nvidia-gtc24-and-r24-recap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NVIDIA GTC24 and R24 recap<\/a><\/div>\n<hr>\n<p><em>The Robot Report<\/em> editorial director Eugene Demaitre recently returned from the R-24 international robotics event in Odense, Denmark. From this trip, he immediately headed out to San Jose, Calif., to attend NVIDIA GTC 2024 with senior editor Mike Oitzman.<\/p>\n<p>In this episode, Gene and Mike talk about what Gene saw and learned during his latest visit to Odense. From there, the co-hosts discuss their experiences at the GTC event, and all of the interesting sessions on artificial intelligence and robotics, NVIDIA&#8217;s product announcements for robotics, and the demonstrations by vendors that exhibited on the busy show floor.<\/p>\n<h2><b>R-24: Robots, Automation, and Drones<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Odense Robotics is one of the largest robotics clusters in the world, with 350 members across Denmark, about half of which are in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/?s=odense&amp;page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Odense area<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>It employs about 18,000 people, with plans to double that over the next decade. Local leaders attributed that to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/odense-robotics-culture-of-collaboration-can-overcome-economic-challenges-says-ceo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">culture of collaboration<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Among the interesting things the international delegations saw around <a href=\"https:\/\/roboticsevent.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">R-24<\/a> was Odense Port, which is now building giant wind turbines in addition to maintaining container ships.<\/li>\n<li>They also visited the drone test center at the Hans Christian Andersen Airport; the Danish Technological Institute, which hosts the Odense Robotics Startup Fund; and the Maersk-McKinney Moller Institute at the University of Southern Denmark, as well as Universal Robots headquarters.<\/li>\n<li>Odense is also <a href=\"https:\/\/roscon.ros.org\/2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hosting ROSCon<\/a> later this year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Highlights from NVIDIA GTC 2024<\/h2>\n<p>In addition to CEO Jensen Huang&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/nvidia-announces-new-robotics-products-at-gtc-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keynote<\/a>, here are some highlights from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/tag\/nvidia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NVIDIA<\/a>&#8216;s latest GPU Technology Conference:<\/p>\n<h3>New foundation for humanoid robotics<\/h3>\n<p>The big news from the robotics side of the house was that NVIDIA <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/foundation-model-isaac-robotics-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">launched<\/a> a new general-purpose foundation model for humanoid robots called Project <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/project-gr00t\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GR00T<\/a>. This new model is designed to bring robotics and embodied AI together while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/how-generative-ai-transforming-robotics-amit-goel-fnkkc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enabling<\/a> the robots to understand natural language and emulate movements by observing human actions.<\/p>\n<h3>GR00T uses the new Jetson Thor<\/h3>\n<p>As part of its robotics announcements, NVIDIA unveiled Jetson Thor for humanoid robots, based on the NVIDIA Thor system-on-a-chip (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/category\/technologies\/microprocessors-socs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SoC<\/a>). Significant upgrades to the NVIDIA Isaac robotics platform include generative AI foundation models and tools for simulation and AI workflow infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The Thor SoC includes a next-generation GPU based on NVIDIA <a href=\"https:\/\/nvidianews.nvidia.com\/news\/nvidia-blackwell-platform-arrives-to-power-a-new-era-of-computing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blackwell<\/a> architecture with a transformer engine delivering 800 teraflops of 8-bit floating-point AI performance. With an integrated functional safety processor, a high-performance CPU cluster, and 100GB of Ethernet bandwidth, it can simplify design and integration efforts, claimed the company.<\/p>\n<h3>NVIDIA updates Isaac simulation platform<\/h3>\n<p>The Isaac tools that GR00T uses are capable of creating new foundation models for any robot embodiment in any environment, according to NVIDIA. Among these tools are <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/isaac-sim#isaac-lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Isaac Lab<\/a> for reinforcement learning, and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/blog\/scale-ai-enabled-robotics-development-workloads-with-nvidia-osmo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OSMO<\/a>, a compute orchestration service.<\/p>\n<h3>NVIDIA DRIVE Thor for robot axis<\/h3>\n<p>The company also announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/self-driving-cars\/in-vehicle-computing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NVIDIA DRIVE Thor<\/a>, which now supersedes NVIDIA DRIVE Orin as a SoC for autonomous driving applications.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable sessions (worth watching the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/on-demand\/live-hosted-replays\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">replays<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Geordie Rose, CEO of Sanctuary: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/accelerating-robotic-innovation-synthetic-data-discover-andrews-a1awc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Using Omniverse<\/a> to generate first-person experiential data for humanoid robots&#8221;<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Aaron Saunders, chief technology officer of Boston Dynamics: &#8220;Deploying AI in real-world robots&#8221;<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Vincent Vanhouke, senior director of robotics at Google Deepmind: \u201cRobotics in the age of GenAI&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Interesting robots seen at GTC24:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Agility DIGIT (static)<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/apptronik-integrates-apollo-humanoid-nvidia-project-gr00t\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Apptronik Apollo<\/a> (static)<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arcweb.com\/blog\/unitree-nvidia-collaborate-promote-depth-evolution-global-ai-robots\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Unitree H1<\/a><\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">1X Eve<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Fourier Analysis &#8211; GR1<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Disney BD-X droids<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">ANYbotics ANYmal<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Enchanted Tools Mirokai<\/li>\n<li aria-level=\"1\">Richtech Robotics ADAM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><hr \/>\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-568305\" src=\"https:\/\/www.therobotreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/RSE24_728x90_RegOpen_Vs1.jpg\" alt=\"SITE AD for the 2024 Robotics Summit registration.\" width=\"728\" height=\"90\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roboticssummit.com\/\">Learn from Agility Robotics, Amazon, Disney, Teradyne and many more.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode of our podcast, our editorial team reviews its attendance at R-24 in Denmark and NVIDIA GTC 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":578270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rbr50_analysis":"","rbr50_state":"","rbr50_country":"","rbr50_description":"","rbr50_numemps":"","rbr50_text_taxonomy_radio":null,"rbr50_text_taxonomy_select":null,"rbr50_url":"","rbr50_yearfounded":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2237,1382,2013,1349,1401,2131,3105,1384],"tags":[2315,4313,1881,2158,3726],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - 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