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| GPU Technology Conference Closing Night Party for Charity Posted: 15 Sep 2010 02:00 PM PDT For those of you attending the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) next week, we want to extend an invitation to our closing night party for charity on Thursday, September 23. The event will feature live music and raffle prizes, all for a great cause, Hope Lab. In addition, every dollar raised at the event will be matched by the NVIDIA Foundation. Tickets to the event cost $10, which includes a free drink ticket plus an entry into a raffle. You can buy your party tickets on the GTC show floor, at the NVIDIA Foundation table on the concourse, or at the door. Details about the event: WHEN: Thursday, September 23 at 8:00 PM Hope to see you there! This year's recipient is Hope Lab, an organization that aims to enhance the physical health and psychological well-being of young people with cancer. Your donations will support the global distribution of Hope Lab's popular kids video game, Re-Mission, the first video game shown to induce positive behaviors that enhance the effectiveness of medical treatment. In Re-Mission, players pilot a nanobot named Roxxi as she travels through the bodies of fictional cancer patients destroying cancer cells, battling bacterial infections, and managing side effects associated with cancer and cancer treatment. Research shows that patients who played Re-Mission stuck to their prescribed treatments more consistently, a key component of successful cancer treatment, and showed increases in cancer knowledge and self-efficacy. Get your own copy at: www.re-mission.net. About the NVIDIA Foundation: The NVIDIA Foundation is one of the only employee-led foundations in Silicon Valley. Each year, an employee board of directors receives feedback from our global employee population regarding the issues they care most about addressing, such as education and cancer research, and puts together an exciting set of programs that leverages NVIDIA's unique strengths as a company: having a transformative impact, engaging our employees, leveraging our ecosystem of customers, suppliers and vendors. The Foundation is developing a program called Compute the Cure, to drive forward a cure for cancer by supporting researchers working with gene sequencing technologies. |
| Emerging Companies Summit Preview: Universal Robotics Posted: 15 Sep 2010 12:00 PM PDT With only one week to go until the Emerging Companies Summit (ECS), taking place during the GPU Technology Conference, we wanted to continue our series preveiwing some of the great startups that will be presenting. Each ECS start-up is transforming industries through innovative, GPU-based technology, and Universal Robotics is raising the bar in the areas of artificial intelligence, 3D vision … and robots. Here's a sneak preview of what this Nashville, Tenn.-based company will be demo-ing at ECS:
Universal Robotics makes software that lets machines learn from interactions with the physical world and adapt to better perform specific tasks. The learning and adapting part is covered by Universal Robotics AI software called Neocortex. Specifically developed to complete tasks that are never the same – like unloading a pallet of assorted boxes – Neocortex's fitting tagline is, "Automating Intelligence." Just like a human brain, Neocortex needs sensory input. So Universal Robotics combines AI with a suite of sensors including which their 3D vision software called Spatial Vision – 3D vision positioning software that uses two web cameras to determine positions in space down to the millimeter. Spatial Vision is also available to those looking to create 3D movies, improve facial recognition, or virtually any other vision-based system. The final piece is Universal's Visual Servoing software, which controls machine movement, allowing a robot to react and move based on 3D vision. The company uses NVIDIA Tesla GPUs and CUDA programming to run the Neocortex learning algorithms and to provide the processing power for 3D vision-dependent capabilities like robot movement and collision avoidance. Equipped with Universal Robotics' suite of software can be used for work that is too costly, difficult, or dangerous for humans to do. Applications could include hazardous waste cleanup or high-speed materials handling. In fact, Universal Robotics already has one partnership with robot manufacturer Motoman to provide the software for industrial robots. The underlying Spatial Vision software can be used to turn any two webcams into an accurate, cost-effective, and easy 3D vision system. |
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