NVIDIA Introduces Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 for Mass-Market Robotics and Edge AI

NVIDIA has unveiled the Jetson Thor T3000 and T2000 modules, designed for mass-market robotics and edge AI. The T3000 delivers 865 FP4 teraflops in a compact form factor, while the T2000 offers 400 FP4 teraflops for broader edge applications. Companies like 1X, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon Robotics are adopting the platform. New AI agent skills automate memory optimization, and the Cosmos 3 Edge model is introduced for real-time robot vision.

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Nearly Invisible Drone Phantom Twist Developed

Robotics engineers at Northwestern University have introduced the Phantom Twist drone, which becomes nearly invisible to the human eye by spinning at 15–25 Hz. The device uses the persistence of vision effect: rapid rotation turns it into a transparent blur. The design was optimized using a computational method that minimizes the LPIPS metric (Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity) for image similarity with the background.

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