Developers, researchers, hobbyists and students can take a byte out of holiday shopping this season as NVIDIA has unwrapped special discounts on the NVIDIA Jetson family of developer kits for edge AI and robotics — available through Sunday, Jan. 11.
Whether tapping into the breakthrough capabilities of Jetson AGX Thor, the versatility of Jetson AGX Orin or the palm-sized power of the NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, anyone can deck out their bots with greater physical AI performance for lower costs:
- The Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit — now 20% off — is designed for building humanoid robots, fleets of autonomous machines and multimodal physical AI agents. It delivers server-class compute and generative AI capabilities for the most challenging workloads in labs, factories and the field.
- The Jetson AGX Orin Developer Kit — now 50% off — powers advanced robots, autonomous machines and generative AI at the edge with 275 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance, ideal for delivery bots, smart vision capabilities and industrial automation.
- The Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit — the world’s most affordable generative AI supercomputer — offers desktop-class AI in a palm-sized kit for exploring, building and deploying cutting-edge generative AI, vision and robotics.
Read more below on how the NVIDIA Jetson platform presents the future of robotics.
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super Serves as Brain of Self-Paddling Canoe
Robotics enthusiast Dave Niewinski has built a self‑paddling canoe using the Jetson Orin Nano Super Developer Kit, letting boaters relax and glide on their rides.
The robotic boat integrates two six-axis robotic arms mounted on a lightweight canoe frame, with paddle motion controlled through ROS software and AI algorithms.
The Jetson Orin Nano Super delivers up to 67 INT8 TOPS of AI performance through its NVIDIA Ampere architecture GPU, 32 Tensor Cores and 1,024 CUDA cores, alongside a six-core Arm Cortex‑A78AE CPU and 8GB LPDDR5 memory with 102 GB/s bandwidth.
Its low power envelope of up to 25 watts enables sustained real-time inference and control in mobile, battery-powered applications.
NVIDIA AGX Orin Dives Into Open Seas on Underwater AI System
OptoScale, an AI aquaculture company based in Norway, has integrated the Jetson AGX Orin-powered MX13/23 platform from edge AI solutions provider Aetina to build an underwater AI sensing system that monitors fish health in massive open-sea pens housing thousands of fish.
Mounted inside a submerged camera module, the Jetson AGX Orin processes high-resolution video streams directly at the edge and runs real-time vision models on the device. This allows the system to estimate biomass with exceptional accuracy and deliver continuous inference-based insights even in remote environments with limited connectivity.
The Jetson AGX Orin delivers powerful GPU acceleration and high TOPS AI performance in a compact, energy-efficient module ideal for deployment anywhere.
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Powers Mobile Humanoid ‘Dex’
Las Vegas-based Richtech Robotics is developing Dex, a mobile humanoid robot for factory and warehouse environments designed to handle light-to medium-weight industrial tasks like machine operation, parts sorting, material handling and packaging.
Running on NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor, Dex combines the mobility of an autonomous wheeled platform with the precision of dual-arm dexterity, allowing it to efficiently navigate environments and pick and place objects. It was trained with a mix of real-world and synthetic data generated from NVIDIA Isaac Sim.
NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules enable real-time reasoning for physical AI, delivering up to 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI compute and 128GB of memory with power configurable between 40-130 watts.
With discounted pricing for a limited time and a full spectrum of performance options, the NVIDIA Jetson family gives anyone the tools to design, build and deploy the next generation of intelligent machines. It’s the ideal gift for robot lovers — and the robots in their lives.