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Wednesday, 12 September 2018

GTC Japan 2018 highlights advances in robotics

Source: NVIDIA blog post. Night view of billboards in Tokyo.
Source: NVIDIA blog post. Night view of billboards in Tokyo.
GTC Japan 2018 marks NVIDIA's 10th GPU Technology Conference (GTC) in Tokyo, Japan, and it’s going to be the biggest and best yet, with at least 5,000 human attendees expected from September 13-14 at The Grand Prince Hotel New Takanawa, Tokyo.

GTC Japan is where the latest on GPU computing will be discussed. This year’s robotics track includes:
 
- Tetsuya Ogata, Professor at Waseda University, sharing how his team is using deep learning dynamic frameworks to analyse complex actions such as folding clothes and opening doors.
- Takayuki Nagai, Professor at University of Electro-Communications, talking about advancements in machine learning changing lives, complete with examples of how AI-powered robots are coexisting with people. 

- Daisuke Yamamoto, Executive Officer at OPTiM Platform Group, discussing the future of high-precision vision computing, based on robotic use cases in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, forestry and construction. 

- Dieter Fox, head of Robotics Research at NVIDIA, covering progress in model- and learning-based approaches to perception and control in robotics. He will also discuss how this research supports the NVIDIA Isaac framework, a new toolbox for the simulation, training, verification and deployment of robots.
- Chitoku Yato, Technical Product Marketing Manager at NVIDIA, will conduct two technical deep dives. Developers will learn how to create and deploy AI-powered robotics using the Isaac software development kit (SDK) and how to create the next generation of robots with Jetson Xavier.
GTC Japan will also feature demonstrations from:
 
- DENSO: an AI industrial robot that can assemble parts from different pallets
- FANUC: an AI pick-and-place robot
- Hitachi: an autonomous robot for household chores
- Kawada: a collaborative robot for industrial automation
- Komatsu, featuring smart construction equipment
- Musashi Seimitsu: performing autonomous optical inspection of high-precision auto parts

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