EachNVIDIA quarterly report , the head and founder give decent amount of time to the story about the prospects of the company's development in the creation of automatic driving systems. It is not just about the Tegra processors, which are used in on-board management systems, but also the "cloud" systems based on NVIDIA Tesla computing accelerators to help in autopilots analyze "collective experience" to improve skills.
Reporter PC Watch Japanese resource met with the head of the local office NVIDIA Masataka Osaka for dinner to learn more about personal preferences. The text portion has a lot of attention to his interests: laptops and Apple smart phones, a motorcycle and a favorite brand of home appliances. However, if you remove a purely personal moments, in the bottom line you can see the specialization of NVIDIA Japanese representation. Given the rich experience of local engineers in the creation of robots, NVIDIA is now actively experimenting with automobile autopilot.
In the future, as the Osaka-san claims, the NVIDIA will pay no less attention to the development of robotics in the broadest sense of the term. It will be industrial robots and humanoid au pairs.
According to Osaka-san, a few decades ago, the main means of transportation was a horse . Now everything changed on cars, but now there are people who have the pleasure of riding. The same will happen with the car - even after 20 years there are fans to sit behind the wheel. Speaking of robots NVIDIA will speak not only to the October session of the GTC in Japan, but at CES 2017 in January next year.