AI-powered toothpicks, paperweights, shoelaces… everyone is touting their AI-enhanced products. In the real world, a lot of the cool kids are actually working on hardware solutions; from humanoid robots to tactile sensor technologies to swarm robotics, it’s the new frontier.
NVIDIA, everyone's favorite GPU company, just announced the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit. This compact platform aims to empower embedded systems developers, robotics engineers, and edge AI innovators. It’s designed to accelerate prototyping and deployment of autonomous machines and intelligent systems in real-world environments.
The Jetson Orin Nano Super complements NVIDIA’s extensive AI ecosystem. On the hardware side, NVIDIA’s A100 and H100 Tensor Core GPUs lead the market in training and inference tasks, though their scarcity and cost make headlines as often as their specs. On the software side, tools like NVIDIA AI Enterprise streamline deployment, while frameworks such as NeMo and Clara deliver specialized solutions for conversational AI and healthcare. Developers can also leverage CUDA and pre-trained models to fast-track innovation.
What makes the Jetson Orin Nano Super stand out is its focus on real-time applications where latency and on-device processing are critical—think drones, autonomous vehicles, industrial robots, etc. Paired with the NVIDIA Omniverse platform for 3D collaboration and simulation, it offers a powerful toolkit for edge AI.
Remember: AI is not just about ChatGPT, Claude, and the other popular LLMs. AI at the edge will enable exceptional productivity as AI capabilities are embedded in products we use everyday.
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