Source: Acceleration Robotics, December 1, 2022 [1]
Acceleration Robotics, who leads the ROS 2 Hardware Acceleration community efforts is working with Microchip to speed-up robot computations using hardware acceleration on Microchip’s PolarFire® SoC solutions.
Source: Acceleration Robotics, November 28, 2022 [2]
The ROS Enhancement Proposal (REP) 2008 aims to describe the architectural pillars and conventions required to introduce hardware acceleration in ROS 2 in a vendor-neutral, scalable and technology-agnostic manner. The Hardware Acceleration group will vote on it next December 13th during the upcoming meeting.
Source: The Register, November 23, 2022 [3]
GPU shipments in the third quarter saw their biggest drop since the Great Recession. The sector has seen an overall tumble in sales over the past several months. Third-quarter GPU shipments for PCs decreased 25.1 percent year-over-year and 10.3 percent from the previous quarter.
Source: OC3D, November 25, 2022 [4]
Xilinx's FPGA products will see price increases from 8%-25%, with AMD citing increasing manufacturing costs and supply chain investments. AMD's price increases for Xilinx products will come into effect on January 9th 2023. The chip shortage is still in effect outside of the semiconductor industry.
Source: The Robot Report, November 29, 2022 [5]
MIT researchers have created robots that are made up of the same components they use to build structures. These robots can move independently in large numbers to make those structures. MIT's voxel-robot can also decide how many robots it needs to build a structure.
Source: HPCwire, November 28, 2022 [6]
As organizations move to using open source and open standard solutions, developers need the ability to write code once and be able to use it on multiple architectures. AMD developed a porting solution that allows developers to port code that is based on NVIDIA's CUDA API to run on AMD GPUs.
Source: pantagraph, November 29, 2022 [7]
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is divided on support for law enforcement. The debate recalled outrage over the use of military gear by police during protests in Ferguson, Missouri. Civil rights advocates opposed the proposal, saying it would lead to further militarization.
Source: Medium, November 27, 2022 [8]
There's been a bit of controversy around Google's AI, LaMDA. One of its ethical team claimed that this chatbot is conscious, and it has basic human rights.
Source: Ansys, November 11, 2022 [9]
A majority of drivers prefer improvements to driver assist systems over fully autonomous experiences. When asked, 85% said they were fearful or unsure of self-driving technology. Original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) continue to advance autonomous vehicle technologies. AVs offer transformative safety opportunities for all vehicle occupants.
Source: Australian Manufacturing Forum, November 29, 2022 [10]
Australia's place in the semiconductor world is defined by its reliance on overseas fabrication, writes Andrew McLellan from Bluechiip, an Australian company specialising in high-performance semiconductors.
Source: AZoRobotics, November 28, 2022 [11]
Bridgestone Corporation has commenced a Proof of Concept (PoC) for using soft-robot hands to automatically perform piece-picking, the process of picking and transporting individual items. Looking ahead, the company will seek to achieve small-scale commercialization during the next Mid Term Business Plan (2024-2026).
Source: arXiv, October 18, 2022 [12]
A Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based embedded architecture is developed to accelerate estimation of relative pose between the point-clouds, aided by image features. The proposed embedded solution is a hardware/software co-design that evaluates the OLTAE computations for high-speed state estimation.
Source: IEEE Xplore, September 15, 2022 [13]
The increasing complexity of vehicles is driving a technological shift in the design of software in the automotive industry. A significant part of the functionalities of a powerful middleware like DDS can be effectively implemented through hardware accelerators. This allows to build cost-effective solutions suitable for next-generation automotive systems.
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