Last week, the autonomous racing
series that is Roborace unveiled what its cars will look like. But now
we also know what will control them: Nvidia’s liquid-cooled Drive PX 2
computers, which crunch through
24 trillion AI operations every single second.
Nvidia first announced the
car-specific computer at the start of the year. Said to be “the size of a
lunchbox and with the computing capability of 150 MacBook Pros,” it’s
powered by two Tegra processors and two discrete GPUs. It’s claimed it
can gobble up data from 12 video cameras, along with lidar, radar and
ultrasonic sensors, then processes the streams of information to make
sense of the outside world.
Nvidia says that the Roborace
cars will make use of radar, lidar, cameras, GPS and high-definition
mapping when they hit the track. It also points out that the computers
will allow each car to learn, getting better the more they race. In fact
it’ll it process up to 2,800 images per second using a neural
network-based algorithm to do that.
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