Electric robot tractors powered by Nvidia AI chips are here
by Umar Shakir from The Verge - All Posts on (#66CYY)
Monarch Tractor, an electric smart tractor company, says its first AI-powered farming vehicles, dubbed the MK-V, are rolling off the production line. It's the Livermore, California-based startup's first product, and it uses Nvidia's Jetson edge AI platform to perform agricultural tasks with or without a driver behind the wheel.
The NVIDIA Jetson enables the MK-V to run low-latency, real-time AI applications while at the same time conserving energy for longer battery life and extended run time," said Monarch Tractor CEO Praveen Penmetsa.
Image: Monarch Tractor The Monarch MK-V being recharged.Each MK-V uses six of the Jetson Xavier NX system-on-modules that enable them to navigate fields using only cameras,...