Robots around the world are about to get a lot smarter as physical AI developers plug in NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules - new robotics computers that can serve as the brains for robotic systems across research and industry.
Robots demand rich sensor data and low-latency AI processing. Running real-time robotic applications requires significant AI compute and memory to handle concurrent data streams from multiple sensors. Jetson Thor, now in general availability, delivers 7.5x more AI compute, 3.1x more CPU performance and 2x more memory than its predecessor, the NVIDIA Jetson Orin, to make this possible on device.
This performance leap will enable roboticists to process high-speed sensor data and perform visual reasoning at the edge - workflows that were previously too slow to run in dynamic real-world environments. This opens new possibilities for multimodal AI applications such as humanoid robotics.
Agility Robotics, a leader in humanoid robotics, has integrated NVIDIA Jetson into the fifth generation of its robot, Digit - and plans to adopt Jetson Thor as the onboard compute platform for the sixth generation of Digit. This transition will enhance Digit's real-time perception and decision-making capabilities, supporting increasingly complex AI skills and behaviors. Digit is commercially deployed and performs logistics tasks such as stacking, loading and palletizing in warehouse and manufacturing environments.
The powerful edge processing offered by Jetson Thor will take Digit to the next level - enhancing its real-time responsiveness and expanding its abilities to a broader, more complex set of skills, said Peggy Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics. With Jetson Thor, we can deliver the latest physical AI advancements to optimize operations across our customers' warehouses and factories.
Boston Dynamics - which has been building some of the industry's most advanced robots for over 30 years - is integrating Jetson Thor into its humanoid robot Atlas, enabling Atlas to harness formerly server-level compute, AI workload acceleration, high-bandwidth data processing and significant memory on device.
Beyond humanoids, Jetson Thor will accelerate various robotic applications - such as surgical assistants, smart tractors, delivery robots, industrial manipulators and visual AI agents - with real-time inference on device for larger, more complex AI models.
A Giant Leap for Real-Time Robot Reasoning Jetson Thor is built for generative reasoning models. It enables the next generation of physical AI agents - powered by large transformer models, vision language models and vision language action models - to run in real time at the edge while minimizing cloud dependency.
Optimized with the Jetson software stack to enable the low latency and high performance required in real-world applications, Jetson Thor supports all popular generative AI frameworks and AI reasoning models with unmatched real-time performance. These include Cosmos Reason, DeepSeek, Llama, Gemini and Qwen models, as well as domain-specific models for robotics like Isaac GR00T N1.5, enabling any developer to easily experiment and run inference locally.
NVIDIA Jetson Thor opens new capabilities for real-time reasoning with multi-sensor input. Further performance improvement is expected with FP4 and speculative decoding optimization. With NVIDIA CUDA ecosystem support through its lifecycle, Jetson Thor is expected to deliver even better throughput and faster responses with future software releases.
Jetson Thor modules also run the full NVIDIA AI software stack to accelerate virtually every physical AI workflow with platforms including NVIDIA Isaac for robotics, NVIDIA Metropolis for video analytics AI agents and NVIDIA Holoscan for sensor processing.
With these software tools, developers can easily build and deploy applications, such as visual AI agents that can analyze live camera streams to monitor worker safety, humanoid robots capable of manipulation tasks in unstructured environments and smart operating rooms that guide surgeons based on data from multi-camera streams.
Jetson Thor Set to Advance Research Innovation Research labs at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Zurich are tapping Jetson Thor to push the boundaries of perception, planning and navigation models for a host of potential applications.
At Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute, a research team uses NVIDIA Jetson to power autonomous robots that can navigate complex, unstructured environments to conduct medical triage as well as search and rescue.
We can only do as much as the compute available allows, said Sebastian Scherer, an associate research professor at the university and head of the AirLab. Years ago, there was a big disconnect between computer vision and robotics because computer vision workloads were too slow for real-time decision-making - but now, models and computing have gotten fast enough so robots can handle much more nuanced tasks.
Scherer anticipates that by upgrading from his team's existing NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin systems to Jetson AGX Thor developer kit, they'll improve the performance of AI models including their award-winning MAC-VO model for robot perception at the edge, boost their sensor-fusion capabilities and be able to experiment with robot fleets.
Wield the Strength of Jetson Thor The Jetson Thor family includes a developer kit and production modules. The developer kit includes a Jetson T5000 module, a reference carrier board with abundant connectivity, an active heatsink with a fan and a power supply.
NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor Developer Kit The Jetson ecosystem supports a variety of application requirements, high-speed industrial automation protocols and sensor interfaces, accelerating time to market for enterprise developers. Hardware partners including Advantech, Aetina
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Robots around the world are about to get a lot smarter as physical AI developers plug in NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules - new robotics computers that can serve as the brains for robotic systems across research and industry.
