NVIDIA Corporation has announced a partnership with Solomon 3D for its Isaac Manipulator. Accordingly, the Isaac Manipulator was one of the highlight robotics platforms NVIDIA announced at the ongoing GTC AI Conference at San Jose Convention Center in California.

Solomon is a leading industrial automation and augmented intelligence solutions provider. Particularly, the Taiwan-headquartered company specializes in AI inspection systems and process optimization.

At GTC AI Conference, Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA said enabling technologies are coming together for leading robotics to take artificial general robotics.

“The most used robot (platform) today is the (Isaac) Manipulator. They are also pre-programmed. The computer vision algorithms and the control path-planning algorithms are geometrically aware, and incredibly computationally intensive…we call it Isaac Manipulator and they run on NVIDIA’s computers,” said Huang.

Taps Generative AI

Isaac Manipulator, and the Isaac Perceptor, are among the collection of robotics pretrained models, libraries, and reference hardware Huang announced at GTC AI Conference. 

Isaac Manipulator offers state-of-the-art dexterity and modular AI capabilities. Particularly, it suits robotic arms, with a robust collection of foundation models and GPU-accelerated libraries. In addition, it provides up to an 80x speedup in path planning and zero-shot perception increases efficiency and throughput. Thus, enabling developers to automate a greater number of new robotic tasks.

Aside from Solomon, other early ecosystem partners for the Isaac Manipulator are Yaskawa, Universal Robots, PickNik Robotics, READY Robotics, and Franka Robotics.

On the other hand, the Isaac Perceptor provides multi-camera, 3D surround-vision capabilities. Their applications include autonomous mobile robots adopted in manufacturing and fulfillment operations to improve efficiency and worker safety. Moreover, they also reduce error rates and costs. Early adopters include ArcBest, BYD and KION Group as they aim to achieve new levels of autonomy in material handling operations and more.

History of Collaboration

Solomon has collaborated with NVIDIA last year to develop groundbreaking products in robotics and artificial intelligence. As a result, Solomon came up with the world’s first 3D embedded camera that incorporates advanced neural networks. Specifically, its design suits 3D robotic material handling.

Moreover, it leverages the full power of the latest NVIDIA Jetson Orin modules, along with the utilization of NVIDIA Metropolis for Factories. In addition, the CUDA parallel computing platform, and the TensorRT SDK for deep learning model optimization also lift Solomon’s AccuPick 3D camera. This state-of-the-art smart camera eliminates the need for a separate controller to handle complex tasks associated with 3D point cloud data, AI image recognition, and robots’ motion planning.

-21 March 2024-