From the barn to the bar: AI powered robots

The Robot Report Podcast · 19 Apr 2024 · 1h 01m

AI in practice: 2 real uses of AI described

What this episode covers

Mike Weitzman and Gene Dimitri discuss the launch of Boston Dynamics' all-electric Atlas humanoid robot and the stealth launch of Mentee Robotics, highlighting the accelerating race in humanoid development. They also cover Locust Robotics' milestone of 3 billion picks and California's new legislation allowing municipalities to ban autonomous vehicles. The episode features interviews with Matt Casella of Richtech Robotics about the AI-powered bartending robot Adam, and Chris Padwick of John Deere on training vision models for the See & Spray agricultural system.

AI in practice

Where this conversation describes AI being used to build or deliver a product. Part of the AI in practice tracker.

Engineering & simulationNVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin, NVIDIA Jetson Nano

Rich Tech Robotics integrated NVIDIA hardware into the Adam bartending robot to enable real-time customer recognition, tool identification, and speech processing for interactive hospitality service.

“So, obviously, there's a couple pieces of Nvidia equipment. It's a really powerful new enhancement that we've provided here in the atom, using both the NVIDIA, Jetson, AJX Oren. Okay. And then also an orange nano. So we have two different components that are helping Adam, two both recognize customers as they enter the environment, also to recognize the tools, which he's. … There's a camera on it. There a camera out of it.”

Matt Casella · Hear it at 29:28

Engineering & simulationNVIDIA Jetson Thor5x compute capability

John Deere plans to upgrade its See & Spray system to the next-generation NVIDIA Jetson Thor, which offers 5x the compute capability of the current Xavier modules, allowing for reduced hardware count and increased throughput.

“Yeah, can't wait for that. In fact, our kind of next generation of this system's gonna be built on the orange, and, uh, the compute capability of the orange, the Xavier's around 5x. Okay. Yeah. for our application, and, uh, we think we can actually reduce the number of VPUs on it in our…”

Chris Padwick · Hear it at 54:14

Most relevant to

companies scaling up, early-stage companies and large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Boston Dynamics, Richtech Robotics, John Deere, Mentee Robotics, Locust Robotics, NVIDIA, Blue River Technology
Products
Atlas, Adam, See & Spray
Chips
Jetson

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