I’ve just added an Xavier to my open source four wheel drive robot. For developers, the first Xavier is $1300. I’m really interested in pure camera based navigation and the Xavier is perfect for developing something like that. I’m going to start with using a stereo camera to follow hiking trails and go from there. The latest on the robot is here if anyone is curious:<p><a href="https://imgur.com/a/GqXD2Zj" rel="nofollow">https://imgur.com/a/GqXD2Zj</a>
Wow. I had a lot of fun with the JTKs when they first came out. I set up a small render farm, and had a blast with them. But at a $2500 price point, I can't see broke, indebted, just-out-of-college me getting the opportunity to do that with this new dev kit, and I think that's kind of a shame. With that said, this is pretty cool, and I totally want one
My team managed to do pretty cool realtime deep neural net computer vision demos on Jetson TX2, but this beast is an order of magnitude faster and energy efficient, which seems almost unbelievable! We're definitely getting a bunch of those and sticking them to our robot.
This fills a need for a general development platform for Nvidia's ARM modules. You could get dev boards for these modules, but the dev boards were (mostly) not suitable for prototyping or products. I think a lot of companies would just default to x86 platforms because of the ease of sourcing small form factor boards that have plenty of connectivity. However, for the right application the performance per watt and form factor is a winner. I guess something that needs low power and a lot of AI/Image processing in a small brick. Autonomous vehicles?