NVIDIA today announced general availability of its Jetson AGX Thor developer kit and production modules for robotics and physical AI applications. With demand growing for robots capable of operating in unstructured environments and interacting safely with people, NVIDIA is positioning Thor as the onboard computer to make that happen. NVIDIA said several of the world’s top robotics and industrial technology companies are already integrating Jetson Thor. Agility Robotics plans to use Thor as the compute backbone for its Digit humanoid robot. Agility said Thor will allow it to run larger, more powerful, and more intelligent policies and reasoning models on Digit locally, in customer facilities and deployments. Agility said it’s particular interested in how Thor will help Digit with end-to-end manipulation and advanced scene understanding. From Agility Robotics: “Digit’s ability to interact with objects in human environments depends on reasoning about context, contact, and control all at once. Running larger, end-to-end manipulation policies onboard will allow Digit to react faster and handle more complex tasks, from stocking shelves to assisting in logistics, and will improve generalization to new environments.”

Full report : Agility Robotics plans to use NVIDIA’s Thor as the compute backbone for its Digit humanoid robot.

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