Listen to this articleAWS and Isaac Sim can help accelerate robotics development, says NVIDIA. NVIDIA Corp. today announced at AWS re:Invent enhanced tools for robotics developers, as well as the availability of NVIDIA DGX Cloud on Amazon Web Services and offerings for artificial intelligence and quantum computing. The company said that NVIDIA Isaac Sim is now available on NVIDIA L40S graphics processing units (GPUs) in Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) G6e instances. It said this could double scaling robotics simulation and accelerate AI model training. Isaac Sim is a reference application built on NVIDIA Omniverse for developers to simulate and test AI-driven robots in physically based virtual environments

Standard Bots, an AI-powered robotics startup, has raised $39M in Series B funding from investors that include led by General Catalyst.

Listen to this articleStandard Robots’ RO1 collaborative robot is currently in production. | Source: Standard Bots. Standard Bots this week raised more than $63 million in total funding. Its new Series B round was led by General Catalyst and included participation from the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund and Samsung Next. The Glen Cove, N.Y.-based company plans to use the fresh funding to expand its engineering team, accelerate the development of its series of next-generation robots in new sizes, and enhance the proprietary platform that makes these robots intuitive for everyday use