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Re: NVIDIA Jetson TK1

For years we've all wanted enough compute power to do some very serious computer vision on our 'bots, and now we have it. I've been working with the Tegra TK1 on a project at Google for the last eleven months and what we're able to do with this device at Google is jaw-dropping. Want to autonomously navigate the field using just a camera and a gyro, you now have enough compute power to do it on your 'bot at video rates. Over the Summer I hope teams will take advantage of this cool offer and start developing software to solve the typical problems you face every year on the field that (formally) required a human-in-the-loop to solve (e.g., game piece tracking, hazard avoidance, path planning and navigation, etc.) If you do this, and are prepared for the game reveal next January, imagine the amazingly cool things you'll be able to do.

If you've read this far and you're still not convinced that you should learn CUDA, VisionWorks and OpenCV programming over the summer instead of playing Call of Duty XVII for countless hours, do yourself a favor and spend just sixteen minutes of time watching this video starting at 1:20:00:

http://www.gputechconf.com/attendees/keynotes-replay

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