Nvidia's New 'Robot Brain' Goes On Sale (cnbc.com)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/08/25/207231/nvidias-new-robot-brain-goes-on-sale
- Source link: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidias-thor-t5000-robot-brain-chip.html
> After a company uses the developer kit to prototype their robot, Nvidia will sell Thor T5000 modules that can be installed in production-ready robots. If a company needs more than 1,000 Thor chips, Nvidia will charge $2,999 per module. CEO Jensen Huang has said robotics is the company's largest growth opportunity outside of artificial intelligence, which has led to Nvidia's overall sales more than tripling in the past two years. "We do not build robots, we do not build cars, but we enable the whole industry with our infrastructure computers and the associated software," said Deepu Talla, Nvidia's vice president of robotics and edge AI, on a call with reporters Friday.
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> The Jetson Thor chips are based on a Blackwell graphics processor, which is Nvidia's current generation of technology used in its AI chips, as well as its chips for computer games. Nvidia said that its Jetson Thor chips are 7.5 times faster than its previous generation. That allows them to run generative AI models, including large language models and visual models that can interpret the world around them, which is essential for humanoid robots, Nvidia said. The Jetson Thor chips are equipped with 128GB of memory, which is essential for big AI models. [...] The company said its Jetson Thor chips can be used for self-driving cars as well, especially from Chinese brands. Nvidia calls its car chips Drive AGX, and while they are similar to its robotics chips, they run an operating system called Drive OS that's been tuned for automotive purposes.
[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/25/nvidias-thor-t5000-robot-brain-chip.html
Robots ARE Ai. (Score:2)
" robotics is the company's largest growth opportunity outside of artificial intelligence"
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Excuse me? (Score:2)
> The company said its Jetson Thor chips can be used for self-driving cars as well, especially from Chinese brands.
Why does country of origin matter when it comes to self-driving? I would think, outside of slight law variances, self-driving cars are self-driving cars. :Or are they just saying they have more interest in Chinese brand self-driving cars than in US brand self-driving cars? And if so, why? Would that be due to pricing? Regulation? Some form of 'ism' that I can't wrap my head around? Or just trying to get in on what they see as the biggest potential market for data-aggregation via in-service hours?
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Based on their [1]press release [nvidia.com], it looks like it's just the case that Chinese automakers are using them more. On their "ecosystem" list, you don't see any Waymo/Jaguar, Tesla, or other companies making cars for the U.S. market (except Volvo).
[1] https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/drive-agx-developer-kit-general-availability/
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My guess would be because of export controls. Guess these are exportable to China under this week's rules (we'll see about next week).
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As long as companies pay the Trump tax on them, they can sell weapons-grade technology to our adversaries! (Nvidia agreed to pay Trump for every GPU they sell to China.)
T for Terminator (Score:1)
T5000 Really? As in T for Terminator. No matter what you use it in, I can't shake the picture of it ripping people in half.
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I'll bet AI could make that video for you with only a few prompts!
T5000 ? (Score:2)
Did they really need to use "T####" model numbers for their terminator...uh....robotics chips?
AI robots? (Score:2)
Well, we will see when the first one kills somebody. Because AI is not suitable to implement machinery safety.
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If you count self driving cars it has already happened.
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> If you count self driving cars it has already happened.
Exactly this. An autonomous vehicle --is-- a robot.