Nvidia has expanded its Jetson lineup with the Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit, a compact platform that carries the new Jetson T5000 system-on-module. Marketed as a developer system, the dimensions and form factor place it firmly in the realm of a mini PC, although its design and purpose align more with edge AI deployment than home computing.
The Earth Rovers SDK allows users to control and monitor Frodobots Earth Rovers bots, providing endpoints for bot control, data retrieval, video streaming, mission management, and intervention handling.
This article discusses the challenges of assembly planning in manufacturing, highlighting its complexity and the need for AI-powered solutions. It explains the gap between 'as-designed' and 'as-manufactured' views of a product and how AutoAssembler aims to bridge this gap with a 'virtual build' approach. It details why classic approaches to assembly planning have stalled and how recent advancements in compute power, AI, and data models are making industrial-scale assembly planning tractable.
This post explores how developers can leverage Gemini 2.5 to build sophisticated robotics applications, focusing on semantic scene understanding, spatial reasoning with code generation, and interactive robotics applications using the Live API. It also highlights safety measures and current applications by trusted testers.
Creativity and a Jetson Orin Nano Super can help hobbyists build accessible robots that can reason and interact with the world. The article discusses building a robot using accessible hardware like Arduino and Raspberry Pi, eventually upgrading to more capable hardware like the Jetson Orin Nano Super to run a large language model (LLM) onboard.
The Palo Alto City Library offers a series of online tutorials and resources to guide absolute beginners in learning coding, robotics, and computational thinking through various projects and initiatives including the use of robots such as Elsie and Dewey, and the agricultural robot FarmBot.
MentorPi is a ROS2-compatible robot car using the Raspberry Pi 5, featuring AI-driven robotics capabilities. It offers two chassis options: MentorPi-M1 with Mecanum wheels and MentorPi-A1 with an Ackermann steering mechanism. Both models include high-performance sensors and motors, with a dual-controller setup for optimized performance and advanced AI features.
A new method called Clio enables robots to quickly map a scene and identify the items they need to complete a given set of tasks.
Unique six-legged robot kit with 12 powerful joints, programmable legs, and a head camera for object detection. Suitable for middle school and up, it comes with EZ-Builder mobile app for coding and operation in groups of 2-3. Includes everything needed to build one hexapod.
Symbotic Inc. acquires Veo Robotics Inc. for $8.7M, gaining its FreeMove technology that enhances robot safety and productivity. Key Veo executives join Symbotic.
