“Thor…is the ultimate platform for physical AI and robotics built for the age of reasoning AI running at the edge — low power, high performance, real time,” Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge AI at Nvidia, said during a news briefing.
The boards have Nvidia’s flagship Blackwell graphics processor, which power the latest genAI models. Users currently have to access those GPUs in the cloud, which is why the robotic implementation of Blackwell in Thor is different. Robots make real-time decisions, and the GPUs can run AI on the device without cloud access or internet connections.
“…Typically, your actuation is in fractions of a second…,” Talla said. “If you go to the cloud, typically the latency is hundreds of milliseconds…. That’s why you want to do as much as possible at the edge.”
