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Today, Jensen Huang unveiled NVIDIA’s Jetson AGX Thor, a major leap forward in robotics. This tiny computer is for humanoid robots, self-driving cars as well as other smart machines, and has the performance to change how they interact with the world. Built on the Blackwell GPU architecture, it has 2,070 teraflops of AI processing power – enough to do complex tasks in real time and use 130 watts of power. If you like the idea of machines that can see, think and move like humans, check this out. Humanoid robots have been in science fiction for years but turning them
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