The AI revolution is transforming nearly every industry. Today, intelligent autonomous machines are creating new business models and services to customers.
NVIDIA Jetson Powering the World's Autonomous Machines
In the pages that follow, we'll explore examples of how NVIDIA ecosystem partners and customers use the NVIDIA® Jetson™ platform to transform their industries and improve everyday life. Our ecosystem partners help to bring powerful edge AI applications to market faster with the full range of NVIDIA Jetson solutions.
Edge AI Revolutionizes 6 Industries
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Transportation and Logistics
- Fleet Management
- Warehouse Autonomous Mobile Robots
- Cargo Receiving Inspection
- Railway AI
- Smart Picking and Sorting
- Marine and Dock Safety
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Healthcare and Life Science
- Stroke Diagnostics
- Medical Image Assistants
- Digital Pathology
- Patient Care
- Surgical Robots
- Digital Health Monitoring
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Smart Retail
- Last Mile Delivery Robot
- Automated Checkout
- Inventory Management
- Store Traffic Analytics
- Shopper Analytics
- Digital Signage
- Social Distancing Detection
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Industrial and Manufacturing
- Industrial Inspection & Quality Control
- Factory Floor Video Analytics
- Remote Intelligent Operation
- Perceptive Robotics
- Materials Handling
- Drone Field Inspection
- Preventive Maintenance
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Smart City
- Smart Traffic Poles
- Roadside Sensor Fusion and Perception
- Airport Management
- Traffic Flow Management
- Number Plate Detection
- Perimeter Protection
- Suspicious Activity Monitoring
- Smart Parking Systems
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Agriculture
- Autonomous Tractors
- AI Harvest
- Robotic Beehives
- Autonomous Mowing
- AI Pollinators
- Livestock Health Management
- Selective Spraying Systems
Why Jetson?
"NVIDIA is a global technology pioneer, and we are proud that our teams are working hand in hand to innovate in the AMR space and offer smart robotics systems. We are confident that the combination of NVIDIA's AI computing excellence and our AI & robotics expertise will create the most powerful and effective solutions on the market. Partnering with technology giants is part of our commitment to building a guiding technology ecosystem to support the new era of supply chain management."
- Hongbo Li, Co-founder and CTO at Geek+
Autonomous Mobile Robots Geek+
Geek+ is an intelligent robotics company shaping the smart logistics revolution. At Geek+, they develop autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) that handle various tasks, including picking, moving, and sorting. They've led the global AMR market share for three consecutive years, being declared the world's no.1 AMR leader. Geek+'s Robotics and AI R&D team is working with NVIDIA's AI engineers on control vision and deep learning algorithms to power the company's latest AMRs. The collaboration covers the full range of Geek+ products, including PopPick, RoboShuttle, and other robots.
- Labor cost and intensity reduced by up to 70%
- Efficiency 3X vs. manual operations
- High profitability with ROI within 1-3 years
Cargo Inspection Kargo and ConnectTech
Loading docks-slow, hazardous, and manual-account for 25% of manufacturing accidents. Trucks wait an average of 2.5 hours at these docks, slowing the supply chain and increasing human error risk at each step. Kargo's sensor tower autonomously performs inspections on bulk palletized freight with a mix of sensors, edge-compute, and connectivity systems for a variety of industrial conditions. Smart loading docks use Kargo's computer vision-sensing towers coupled with on-demand data analytics to detect labels, logos, expiration dates, temperature, dimensions, and more. As a result, real-time exceptions, overages, shortages, damages, and operations failures are easily tracked for all supply-chain stakeholders to review.
- Reduces unloading time by 48%
- Provides real-time abnormality and damage detection
- Enables easy integration to existing ERP and WMS systems
Why Jetson?
"Using the powerful NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier™, we can easily enable computeintensive towers to connect using 10G Ethernet within existing operational systems. These towers use machine learning at the edge to learn what's important about freight and get better with age."
- Sam Lurye, CEO at Kargo
Railway AI Parallel Systems
Parallel Systems is decarbonizing freight by building a cleaner, automated rail future. Its zero-emissions, batteryelectric rail vehicles are more flexible than traditional trains, allowing railroads to open new markets, increase infrastructure utilization, and improve service. Each Parallel vehicle is powered by dual-redundant NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier modules on custom carrier boards.
- Uses just 25% of the energy compared to a semi-truck and offers the lowest operational cost of any surface freight transportation mode
- Provides autonomy that allows operators to increase the utilization and resiliency of today's rail infrastructure, improving the quality of service
- Enables a near-continuous flow of containers through terminals, reducing the waiting times associated with accumulating cargo and loading long trains
Defect Detection Landing AI
Landing AI's flagship product, LandingLens, is an endto-end MLOps platform that's guided by a data-centric AI approach to help manufacturers build, iterate, and operationalize AI-powered visual inspection solutions. Data quality is the key to successful production line deployment. LandingLens, powered by Jetson Xavier NX, makes it fast and easy for users to achieve optimal inspection accuracy and allows computer vision engineers to seamlessly train, test, and deploy deep-learning models to edge devices.
- Enables customers to easily and quickly create, deploy, and scale industrial AI solutions
- Reduces the overall AI project development time by up to 65%
- Enhances visibility into quality control with the ability to track and manage the efficiency of all AI projects
Floor Video Analytics Invisible AI
In manufacturing, every minute counts. Being able to ramp up the manual process and avoid mistakes results in huge operational and safety improvement. Invisible AI takes a human-centric approach to automate manual work tracking using intelligent cameras and get results within minutes. Powered by NVIDIA Jetson, the Invisible AI platform offers a suite of vision AI applications to help industrial customers run accurate, reliable. and safe operations in manufacturing and assembly facilities.
- Installs hundreds of edge AI cameras overnight with minimal IT resources and zero coding or engineering expertise required
- Measures hazardous ergo movement and maintains the privacy and security of your facilities with facial blurring, and all data stored at the edge
- Achieves 98% real-time error-detection rate and prevents simple manual assembly errors with only a few minutes of setup
- Saves 16+ hours in root cause analysis with Smart Search functionality
Industrial Inspection Overview
Overview designs and develops inspection systems that use deep learning technologies for manufacturing complex goods. Its Snap Platform catches manufacturing errors that a human would miss or that would take dozens of humans watching a conveyor belt to see. Overview's software-first approach combines with best-in-class technology on a continually evolving platform, providing customers with a solution that grows and scales with their business needs.
- Easily build camera stations that support quality and traceability goals and simplify creating and maintaining algorithms
- Saved data and images are searchable and analyzed for instant availability
- Get up and running in as little as a week, with zero machine vision experience necessary
- Integrates with any infrastructure and communicates across networks
Why Jetson?
"As a single, continuously improving platform, the NVIDIA Jetson future-proofs our business with a rich ecosystem that is the perfect fit for Overview's state-of-the-art computer vision platform."
- Russell Nibbelink, Co-founder & Head of Engineering at Overview
Remote Intelligent Operation TZTEK
Unmanned ground vehicles operating in the field sometimes need to be taken over remotely by human drivers due to unexpected exceptions. In these situations, the video streams from the vehicle are transferred to the remote intelligent operating simulator through LTE or 5G Internet. The human driver observes the video streams and manipulates the steering wheel, providing a safe and controllable operation system. NVIDIA Jetson's powerful video encoding ability, together with the strong DeepStream SDK and NVIDIA CUDA® acceleration toolkit, make the remote take-over and real-time remote driving easier with low latency.
- Reduces latency to 40ms from the camera data to the videos displayed on the screens of the remote driving simulator
- Provides platform independence, allowing humans to see the video both on the apps and the web browsers
Last-Mile Delivery Serve Robotics
Serve safely walks alongside pedestrians, navigates around fire hydrants, and respects our sidewalks to deliver your favorite anything, on-demand.
Serve sees the world as we do, using lidar and the most advanced sensors of any automated delivery rover. It creates a virtual picture of the world in real time and communicates with an interactive touch screen. All these capabilities are made possible by NVIDIA Jetson platform.
- Operates at commercial Level 4 autonomy
- Aggregates information from a range of sensors, improving safety and efficiency
- Adjusts speed and direction in real time, according to dynamic environment and static map information
- Automatically detects situations where human operator assistance is required and sends a request for help
Why Jetson?
"The Jetson platform has been crucial to the safety and efficiency of Serve's autonomous robot."
- Dmitry Demeshchuk, Cofounder & Head of Software
Automated Checkout Proppos
Proppos FastPay has a hybrid architecture that combines edge computing and cloud infrastructure. With NVIDIA Jetson, Proppos offers highly accurate, real-time food recognition at restaurants and an advanced analytics cloudbased platform for operations managers to show accurate forecasts and customer insights using machine learning. Proppos FastPay boosts restaurant profitability, increases productivity, and improves margins. Finally, thanks to the huge amount of data that Proppos FastPay generates, it can offer personalized shopping and nutritional experiences to end-customers.
- Enables real-time food recognition and the ability to classify any product type
- Delivers 10X faster performance than the traditional checkout process
- Reduces queue time during peak operation hours
Inventory Management Robot Simbe Robotics and Leopard Imaging
Leopard Imaging has developed a powerful imaging solution with the NVIDIA Jetson platform for Simbe Robotics to empower robot Tally to collect real-time on-shelf inventory data in stores. This imaging solution has optimized operational efficiency, boosted labor productivity, and improved sales margins. The Jetson platform enables Tally to process shelf data in real time on the edge, as well as make use of cloud resources.
- Increases performance with the Leopard Imaging best-inclass optical system, including autofocus, auto-exposure, and HDR camera systems
- Improves sensing capabilities as the first inventory robot with CV, ML, and RFID combined
- Delivers real-time sensor fusion and analysis
Why Jetson?
"Leveraging the NVIDIA Jetson platform, Leopard Imaging worked with us on our custom high-definition CSI camera design and manufacturing every step of the way. Their customer support and technical expertise has been outstanding."
- Durgesh Tiwari, VP Hardware Systems, R&D, at Simbe Robotics
Why Jetson?
"Whether it is for cost-sensitive smart retail, sophisticated industrial safety, or largescale smart transportation applications, NVIDIA's Jetson and Aotu's BrainFrame® together provide a cost-effective, powerful smart-vision platform."
- Stephen Li, Chief Executive Officer, Aotu.ai
Smart Retail Operating System Aotu.ai
Restaurants rely on attentive staff to offer a good experience and maximize revenues. When a management team is stretched thin across multiple locations, unmotivated service staff might not provide appropriate attention to customers. BrainFrame® is a platform that makes it quick and easy to use complex AI-based computer vision algorithms on any video feed-an operating system for smart vision. Running on NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX, BrainFrame provides real-time insights to run a busy restaurant with high efficiency at a low cost. Ultimately, restaurant management can know how long customers wait to be served, as well as details about server workloads and table occupancy rates.
- Cuts the typical development time of 9 to 18 months to less than 2 weeks
- Eases use with AI algorithms and performance tuning, AI and video overlays, data visualization dashboard, alarm, and action cards
- Offers downloadable, plug-and-play deep neural network algorithms that are easy to customize for any application and effortless enterprise integrations with REST APIs
Why Jetson?
"NVIDIA Jetson - perfect balance between a powerful mainframe that lets you run
any pipeline and a robust piece of edge hardware that can be easily put wherever
needed."
- Dmitry Chugreev, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Assaia
Airport Management Assaia
The complex sequence of cleaning, restocking, and servicing a plane between flights (known as the turnaround) is effectively wasted time for an airline and airport. Compressing that time results in less delays and more airline profits. London Gatwick Airport (LGW) and airports around the world are partnering with ASSAIA to use NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier for accelerated video analytics and predictive analytics to improve turnaround times and reduce delays.
- Data-driven, optimized operations result in shorter aircraft taxi times, longer ground-power connections, and thus lower kerosene consumption and CO2 emissions
- Real-time information about when turnaround activities are falling behind schedule allows airlines to act faster and improve on-time-performance by as much as 11%
- Accurate, real-time data fuels airport automation, which allows airports and airlines to manage increasing traffic numbers without additional staff requirements
Why Jetson?
"NVIDIA Jetson allows AZmed to deploy its solutions on-premise to keep data within hospitals while using GPU computational power. AZmed can thus provide an AI-aided diagnosis tool for hospitals in the most secure and fastest way possible."
- Alexandre ATTIA , Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at AZmed
Medical Image Assistant AZmed
AZmed is a French company founded in 2018 to improve doctors' working conditions and patient care. The first solution developed by the company, Rayvolve, is a computer-aided diagnosis tool able to detect all types of fractures and chest pathologies on standard x-rays. It's 100% integrated into a doctor's workflow and allows sorting of exams by priority order.
- Automatically detects bone fractures and lung abnormalities
- Saves time by 36%
- Reduces diagnostic errors by 20%
Why Jetson?
"With compact size and reliable hardware, NVIDIA Jetson Platform helps us design
products to make a real impact on the lives of critically ill patients."
- Dr. Arne Peine and Dr. Lukas Martin, CEOs of Clinomic
Patient Care Clinomic GmbH
Clinomic develops innovative solutions for critically ill patients. With Mona, an assistance and telemedicine system, Clinomic brings artificial intelligence directly to the patient's bed to support doctors and nurses in the intensive care unit. An NVIDIA Jetson AGX Xavier module is included in each Mona device, giving it the on-board capabilities to process AI algorithms at the edge. Mona uses the GPU capabilities to process human speech, optimize data density, and provide prescriptive medical suggestions directly on the devices.
- Keeps track of all clinical measures, assuring the best and most accurate treatment for patients and 200% average performance improvement compared to available computational units with same size
- Operates intuitively, using state-of-the-art AI and machine learning to compare the individual disease progression with checklists, guidelines, and treatment pathways to ensure legally required documentation of all measures
- Enables an interdisciplinary, site-independent cooperation via telemedicine, enabling a fast and professional exchange with other intensive care specialists at any time
Why Jetson?
"The NVIDIA Jetson TX2 has been valuable in our proprietary camera and robot controller development."
- Bob Pitzer, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Harvest CROO
AI Harvest Harvest CROO
In response to an acute labor shortage in agriculture in the US, Harvest CROO has developed the first fully autonomous Harvester to pick strawberries. To meet this challenge, Harvest CROO is creating a harvesting service that automates the crop management, harvesting, and packing of strawberries and is currently in commercial trials.
- Enables one Harvester to pick approximately eight acres of strawberries in a day
- Allows the solution to run both day and night, with 16 NVIDIA-powered, independently working robots under the Harvester
- Quickly inspects and data records every berry under the millions of plants on a commercial strawberry farm to see if they're ripe and ready to pick
Why Jetson?
"NVIDIA Jetson allows us to run world-class autonomy algorithms in a rugged outdoor environment on a limited power budget."
- Jack Morrison, CEO at Scythe Robotics
Autonomous Mowing Scythe Robotics
Scythe M.52-the industry's first all-electric, fully autonomous commercial mower-solves the two biggest challenges facing the US landscaping industry today: a chronic labor shortage and a massive pollution problem. NVIDIA Jetson sits at the core of M.52, powering the mower's perception, cognition, and locomotion systems. The sensor fusion powered by NVIDIA Jetson makes for an even more robust perception system, which is critical for operating in dynamic outdoor environments.
- Durability that stands up to the off-road environments of commercial mowing: tough terrain, steep slopes, and intense weather conditions
- A sophisticated perception model with the high speeds required for critical safety needs of mowing
- Electric power for energy costs that are 80% less than traditional gas-powered mowers
The Jetson Family For AI at the edge and autonomous machines
They're available in a wide range of performance, powerefficiency, and form factors, so they can be used by customers across all industries. Check out our next-gen products-AGX Orin series and Orin NX series-with serverclass AI performance.
The Jetson Family For AI at the edge and autonomous machines
They're available in a wide range of performance, powerefficiency, and form factors, so they can be used by customers across all industries. Check out our next-gen products-AGX Orin series and Orin NX series-with serverclass AI performance.
100TOPs (INT8)
10-25W
8GB/16GB
45mm x 70mm
275TOPs (INT8)
15-60W
32GB/64GB
100mm x 87mm
100TOPs (INT8)
10-25W
8GB/16GB
45mm x 70mm
275TOPs (INT8)
15-60W
32GB/64GB
100mm x 87mm
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45mm x 70mm
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100mm x 87mm
Jetson AGX Xavier Industrial 20W-40W**
Explore What's Next in Embedded and Edge Computing
AI is driving competitive advantage-from automating business processes and gaining insight through data analysis, to engaging with customers and employees. NVIDIA Jetson™ is the world's leading platform for autonomous machines and other embedded applications. It includes Jetson modules, which are small form-factor, high-performance computers, the NVIDIA JetPack™ SDK for accelerating software, and an ecosystem with sensors, SDKs, services, and products to speed up development. Jetson is compatible with the same AI software and cloud-native workflows used across other NVIDIA platforms, and delivers the performance and power-efficiency customers need to build softwaredefined autonomous machines.
