AMD Robotics Starter Kit Unlocks the Smart Factory of the Future
AMD Robotics Starter Kit Unlocks the Smart Factory of the Future
SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 17, 2022 — AMD today announced the Kria™ KR260 Robotics Starter Kit, the latest addition to Kria’s adaptive system-on-module (SOM) and developer kit portfolio. As a scalable, out-of-the-box development platform for robotics, the Kria KR260 works with the existing Kria K26 adaptive SOM to provide a seamless production deployment path. With native ROS 2 support, a standard framework for robotics application development, and pre-built interfaces for robotics and industrial solutions, the new SOM starter kit enables rapid development of hardware-accelerated applications for robotics, machine vision, and industrial communication and control .
Kria KR260 Robot Starter Kit
"The Kria KR260 Robotics Starter Kit builds on the success of our Kria SOM and KV260 Vision AI Starter Kits for AI and embedded A complete out-of-the-box solution is available to support this rapidly growing application area. Robotics experts can now work in their standard development environment on a platform capable of implementing everything from All the interfaces and features you need to get up and running. The KR260 Starter Kit is the ideal platform to accelerate robotics innovation and easily bring ideas to production at scale.”
Industry analyst firm Omdia forecasts that the robotics components market will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 20.4% between 2019 and 2025; by 2025, the overall global market revenue will increase to approximately $126 billion1. The Kria KR260 end-to-end adaptive robotics platform is expected to deliver significant productivity gains compared to GPU-based solutions. In addition, the Kria SOM product portfolio speeds up design cycles compared to chip-down design, typically saving up to 9 months of deployment time, meaning developers of all types without FPGA expertise can Get started quickly and easily.
Kria KR260 End-to-End Robotic Platform
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The KR260 hardware platform provides pre-built interfaces for robotics and industrial solutions, combined with the growing collection of accelerated applications from the AMD Xilinx App Store, for easy evaluation and a seamless deployment path.
At the heart of the KR260 design experience is the Kria Robotic Stack (KRS), which enables the robotics community to benefit from adaptive computing more generally. KRS is an integrated set of robotics libraries and utilities that leverage hardware to accelerate the development, maintenance, and commercialization of industrial-grade robotics solutions for Kria SOM. The low latency and adaptive computing architecture of Kria SOM, combined with KRS and ROS 2, can provide higher performance per power and lower latency than GPU-based solutions.
In addition, the KR260 supports the widely adopted Ubuntu embedded operating system and is compatible with the latest long-term support version of Ubuntu Linux Desktop (22.04) and ROS 2 Humble Hawksbill provided by Canonical.
AMD is partnering with Open Robotics, creator of ROS 2 and other open software and hardware platforms for robotics. Both parties work together to verify and ensure that our ROS 2 for the robotics community is fully compliant.
Brian Gerkey, CEO of Open Robotics, said: "The Kria SOM series and the KR260 starter kit provide the robotics community with an excellent combination of performance, flexibility and rapid development time. Users can create software-defined hardware and create high performance per power, A safe, energy efficient and adaptable solution. Open Robotics is excited to partner with AMD Xilinx to understand and meet the needs of roboticists to develop new robotics applications using hardware acceleration with the KR260 development platform.”
