NVIDIA ties up with Open Robotics to boost AI capabilities in ROS 2

NVIDIA and Open Robotics have entered into an agreement to boost ROS 2 performance on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform and GPU-based systems. The partnership aims to reduce development time and improve performance for developers seeking to incorporate computer vision and AI/machine learning functionality into their ROS-based applications.

Open Robotics is said to help ROS 2 to enable efficient management of data flow and shared memory across GPU and other processors present on the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform. This will significantly improve the performance of applications that have to process high-bandwidth data from sensors such as cameras and lidars in real time.