* . *
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact
Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Earth-News
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Spotify & OpenAI: Will Gen AI ‘Hollow Out’ Entertainment? – Technology Magazine

    Will Generative AI Transform the Future of Entertainment

    Author Richard Russo Will Speak At Sandwich Town Hall – CapeNews.net

    Join Us for an Inspiring Evening with Author Richard Russo at Sandwich Town Hall!

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Salem’s Harborwalk Garden Cultivates Community with Entertainment, Food, and Events – 105.7 WROR

    Discover the Vibrant Community Spirit at Salem’s Harborwalk Garden: A Hub for Entertainment, Food, and Fun!

    Entertainment-Focused Narrative and Culture Change Practice – New America

    Transforming Culture Through Engaging Entertainment Narratives

    Rising stars: Young classical musicians surging on social media – Yahoo

    Meet the Next Generation of Classical Music Sensations Making Waves on Social Media!

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    The Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology – UCF, ZPP, and IRR10 – Alma Research and Education Center

    Exploring the Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology: Innovations and Insights from UCF, ZPP, and IRR10

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    AI for lawyers: Win back your time using technology – nationaljurist.com

    Reclaim Your Time: How AI is Transforming the Legal Profession

    Prosecutors accuse men of exporting U.S. military technology to China – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    Men Charged with Illegally Exporting U.S. Military Technology to China

    ROLAND’S NEW WIRELESS TRIGGER TECHNOLOGY, PORTER & DAVIES ON TOUR, NEW 64 AUDIO ASPIRE UNIVERSAL IEM MODELS, WAVES FREE PLUGIN PACK – Modern Drummer Magazine

    ROLAND’S NEW WIRELESS TRIGGER TECHNOLOGY, PORTER & DAVIES ON TOUR, NEW 64 AUDIO ASPIRE UNIVERSAL IEM MODELS, WAVES FREE PLUGIN PACK – Modern Drummer Magazine

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    Spotify & OpenAI: Will Gen AI ‘Hollow Out’ Entertainment? – Technology Magazine

    Will Generative AI Transform the Future of Entertainment

    Author Richard Russo Will Speak At Sandwich Town Hall – CapeNews.net

    Join Us for an Inspiring Evening with Author Richard Russo at Sandwich Town Hall!

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Entertainment Partners Acquires CASHét, Digital Payments Vendor for Productions – Variety

    Salem’s Harborwalk Garden Cultivates Community with Entertainment, Food, and Events – 105.7 WROR

    Discover the Vibrant Community Spirit at Salem’s Harborwalk Garden: A Hub for Entertainment, Food, and Fun!

    Entertainment-Focused Narrative and Culture Change Practice – New America

    Transforming Culture Through Engaging Entertainment Narratives

    Rising stars: Young classical musicians surging on social media – Yahoo

    Meet the Next Generation of Classical Music Sensations Making Waves on Social Media!

  • General
  • Health
  • News

    Cracking the Code: Why China’s Economic Challenges Aren’t Shaking Markets, Unlike America’s” – Bloomberg

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Trump’s Narrow Window to Spread the Truth About Harris

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    Israel-Gaza war live updates: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh assassinated in Iran, group says

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    PAP Boss to Niger Delta Youths, Stay Away from the Protest

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Court Restricts Protests In Lagos To Freedom, Peace Park

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Fans React to Jazz Jennings’ Inspiring Weight Loss Journey

    Trending Tags

    • Trump Inauguration
    • United Stated
    • White House
    • Market Stories
    • Election Results
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
    The Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology – UCF, ZPP, and IRR10 – Alma Research and Education Center

    Exploring the Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology: Innovations and Insights from UCF, ZPP, and IRR10

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Inside the tedious effort to tally AI’s energy appetite – MIT Technology Review

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    Finland Set to Lead EU Quantum Technology Defense Project – IoT World Today

    AI for lawyers: Win back your time using technology – nationaljurist.com

    Reclaim Your Time: How AI is Transforming the Legal Profession

    Prosecutors accuse men of exporting U.S. military technology to China – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

    Men Charged with Illegally Exporting U.S. Military Technology to China

    ROLAND’S NEW WIRELESS TRIGGER TECHNOLOGY, PORTER & DAVIES ON TOUR, NEW 64 AUDIO ASPIRE UNIVERSAL IEM MODELS, WAVES FREE PLUGIN PACK – Modern Drummer Magazine

    ROLAND’S NEW WIRELESS TRIGGER TECHNOLOGY, PORTER & DAVIES ON TOUR, NEW 64 AUDIO ASPIRE UNIVERSAL IEM MODELS, WAVES FREE PLUGIN PACK – Modern Drummer Magazine

    Trending Tags

    • Nintendo Switch
    • CES 2017
    • Playstation 4 Pro
    • Mark Zuckerberg
No Result
View All Result
Earth-News
No Result
View All Result
Home Technology

Nvidia’s Robotic Strengths Spell Blissful Uncertainty for Chinese Firms

April 17, 2024
in Technology
Nvidia’s Robotic Strengths Spell Blissful Uncertainty for Chinese Firms
Share on FacebookShare on Twitter

If the year 2023 is remembered as the year of generative AI, it’s no exaggeration to say 2024 will go down in history as the year for humanoid robotics to finally scale up.

We are witnessing a boom of general-purpose robotics, with humanoid robot becoming the face of this fast-paced industry. Since last year, heavyweights like Tesla or startups such as Figure AI have celebrated jaw-dropping milestones in the iteration of humanoid robot models, closing in on the mighty industry leader Boston Dynamics.

A handful of Chinese startups are also rising fast on the robotic scene, mounting a challenge to Western, primarily US, competitors by introducing their own dexterous, versatile humanoid models.

In the coming two to three years, as more of these robot developers come of age technically and commercially, we are poised to see a dramatic uptick in the mass deployment and adoption of humanoid robots across an array of scenarios.

With a global race around humanoid robotics heating up, Chinese companies are hankering for ways to emerge on top. A widely recognized benefit at their disposal is the nation’s vast supply network. It feeds into their production, keeping major parts like electric motor and roller screw linear actuator relatively affordable.

In the meantime, many Chinese firms find themselves at the deep end of a talent pool, with a steady supply of capable engineers to count on.

Strengths on the hardware side do not necessarily translate into advantages on the software front, though. Chinese roboticists have made enormous progress in areas such as teleoperation and complex motion control for humanoid robots. Videos abound online of models “learning” to fold clothes like humans or replicate an Atlas-style somersault.

These advances can be partly attributed to breakthroughs in AI algorithms. But this is also an area where Chinese robotic companies face what I call “blissful uncertainty” — blissful because a giant conveniently supplies them with the underlying technologies, uncertain because the giant could cut them off when they least expect it.

The name of the giant is Nvidia, whose innovations such as parallel-computing GPU (graphic processing unit), Isaac simulation platforms and other tools have largely underpinned the development work at many Chinese robotic startups.

Several domestic startups I spoke to told me that they utilize Nvidia’s iconic Isaac Gym or Isaac Sim platforms to conduct reinforcement learning (RL) training for humanoid or quadrupedal models.

With the Isaac system, the time required for validating RL algorithms for a particular robot prototype has been significantly reduced, shortening the transfer from a simulated environment to the real world. This allows for a substantial boost to its motion capabilities within a short period of time.

Nvidia’s Isaac system has even inspired the birth of domestic variations. In March, Robot Era, a Beijing-based startup, open-sourced what it calls Humanoid-Gym, a RL framework for training a massive number of robotic avatars in simulated environments.

According to Robot Era, this application, based on the Isaac software, is designed to streamline development processes, making it easier for humanoid robots to transition from a simulation avatar to a working prototype in the physical world.

The open-sourcing was intended to lower the threshold to developing RL algorithms for humanoid roboticists worldwide, providing them with a practical platform to build on so as to avoid “reinventing the wheel,” Robot Era says in a press release.

As a behind-the-scenes enabler, Nvidia has stepped up its investment over the years in humanoid robotics, pouring huge sums into innovations that have now become indispensable in RL and embodied AI.

At the GTC 2024 on March 18, Nvidia launched, among others, a new foundation model called GR00T for humanoid robotics. Simply put, this large multimodal model can parse human motions from dancing videos and drumming demonstrations, enabling a physical agent like a robot to understand natural language and emulate complex movements.

While marveling at Nvidia’s sustained ability to roll out powerful technologies, one cannot but express a reasonable dose of concern about over-dependence on this powerhouse. Could sudden curbs in access to Nvidia technologies cripple China’s nascent humanoid robotic space?

Such risks have been evident for a while now. The Verge, an online tech media outlet, reported in December 2023 that Nvidia released RTX 4090D in China, a slower variant of its RTX 4090 graphics card, to comply with US trade restrictions.

Considering that RTX 4090 is widely adopted in China by roboticists, this inevitably raises the question of what their responses would be if stricter sanctions were to come. Prior to the fresh US chip ban slapped on China in November last year, Nvidia commanded a 90% share of China’s AI chip market, according to Reuters. Further sanctions are set to dent but unlikely to shake up its domination.

To sum up, behind the facade of a burgeoning robotic sector lies ample reasons for circumspection. An increasingly powerful Nvidia is as much as an agent for change to Chinese robotic firms as a source of uncertainty.

At a time when full technical autonomy is still a long way off, continued demand for Nvidia products only underscores the lack of comparable alternatives from homegrown vendors. This doesn’t bode well for China’s budding robotic sector.

Ni Tao is the editor-in-chief of cnrobopedia.com, a website that focuses on Chinese robotics and automation.

SEE ALSO: NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang Responds to AI Chip Pricing Issue

>>> Read full article>>>
Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source : Pandaily – https://pandaily.com/nvidias-robotic-strengths-spell-blissful-uncertainty-for-chinese-firms/

Tags: Nvidia’srobotictechnology
Previous Post

4 free ways to screen record Windows 11 [2024 guide]

Next Post

The Chinese Online Audio Platform Ximalaya Restarts IPO

Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems – Nature

Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems – Nature

June 4, 2025
The Science of Scent: How Israeli Innovation is Redefining Perfume and Wellness – The Jerusalem Post

Unlocking the Power of Scent: How Israeli Innovations are Transforming Perfume and Wellness

June 4, 2025
Accidental discovery at New York planetarium unlocks secret into universe’s inner workings – PBS

Serendipitous Find at New York Planetarium Reveals Secrets of the Universe!

June 4, 2025
Lifestyle choices at 60 linked to dementia risk decades later, study shows – ABC News

How Your Lifestyle Choices at 60 Could Impact Dementia Risk Later in Life

June 4, 2025
GBH layoffs hit 45 staffers less than a month after World cuts – Current – For people in public media

GBH Cuts Deep: 45 Staff Members Laid Off Just Weeks After Major Restructuring

June 4, 2025
Washington state gets a $918M lift from international students – Axios

Washington State Reaps $918 Million Boost from International Students!

June 4, 2025
Spotify & OpenAI: Will Gen AI ‘Hollow Out’ Entertainment? – Technology Magazine

Will Generative AI Transform the Future of Entertainment

June 4, 2025
In a first, Minnesota doctors walk their own picket line, then hustle to see patients – Star Tribune

Doctors in Minnesota Take a Stand: Walking the Picket Line Before Caring for Patients

June 4, 2025
Mein Kampf found with gun case at USF and FSU shooter idolized Hitler — there’s time, and a need, for lawmakers to act – Florida Politics

Uncovering Dark Ideologies: The Alarming Connection Between Recent Shootings and Extremist Influences

June 4, 2025
The Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology – UCF, ZPP, and IRR10 – Alma Research and Education Center

Exploring the Isfahan Center for Nuclear Technology: Innovations and Insights from UCF, ZPP, and IRR10

June 4, 2025

Categories

Archives

June 2025
MTWTFSS
 1
2345678
9101112131415
16171819202122
23242526272829
30 
« May    
Earth-News.info

The Earth News is an independent English-language daily published Website from all around the World News

Browse by Category

  • Business (20,132)
  • Ecology (665)
  • Economy (679)
  • Entertainment (21,585)
  • General (15,261)
  • Health (9,721)
  • Lifestyle (682)
  • News (22,149)
  • People (680)
  • Politics (688)
  • Science (15,899)
  • Sports (21,183)
  • Technology (15,665)
  • World (666)

Recent News

Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems – Nature

Experimental ecology and the balance between realism and feasibility in aquatic ecosystems – Nature

June 4, 2025
The Science of Scent: How Israeli Innovation is Redefining Perfume and Wellness – The Jerusalem Post

Unlocking the Power of Scent: How Israeli Innovations are Transforming Perfume and Wellness

June 4, 2025
  • About
  • Advertise
  • Privacy & Policy
  • Contact

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

No Result
View All Result

© 2023 earth-news.info

Go to mobile version