Meet The Maker: Developer Taps Nvidia Jetson As Force Behind AI-Powered Pit Droid
NVIDIA News, Thursday, August 3,2023
Goran Vuksic brings the bot to tech conferences across Europe, demonstrating the power of the edge AI platform through a familiar 'Star Wars' figure.
Goran Vuksic is the brain behind a project to build a real-world pit droid, a type of Star Wars bot that repairs and maintains podracers which zoom across the much-loved film series.
The edge AI Jedi used an NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Developer Kit as the brain of the droid itself. The devkit enables the bot, which is a little less than four feet tall and has a simple webcam for eyes, to identify and move its head toward objects.
Vuksic - originally from Croatia and now based in Malmo, Sweden - recently traveled with the pit droid across Belgium and the Netherlands to several tech conferences. He presented to hundreds of people on computer vision and AI, using the droid as an engaging real-world demo.