From PC World: Drones and robots are getting computer vision with higher-resolution cameras and artificial intelligence to recognize objects and images.
Many are made with developer boards like Nvidia's Jetson TX1, which provides the smarts for auto-navigation and collision avoidance. TX1 has the horsepower to process live image feeds, and software tools to instantly analyze and provide context to visuals.
The TX1 is now a lot faster and better equipped to handle AI and image processing. Nvidia's new Jetpack 2.3 software tools for TX1, announced on Tuesday, are a major update that doubles the deep-learning performance of the board.
The first TX1 went on sale earlier this year, but the new software tools will make drones and robots more reliable. The tools will also make TX1 more relevant in medical imaging and surveillance systems. A surveillance camera made with TX1 could recognize faces in a crowd, identify objects or count the number of people in a frame.
The TX1 has a quad-core CPU and 256-core GPU, which is enough to run algorithms and on-board analytics. The board relies on a new machine-learning engine called TensorRT to analyze pixels and provide the right context to images.
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