Nvidia’s new ‘robot brain’ is now on sale

The $3,499 chip allows customers to create robots.

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00:00NVIDIA is giving robots an upgrade.

00:02The chip maker just unveiled its newest robotics module, the Jetson AGX Thor.

00:08NVIDIA is calling it a robot brain.

00:10The developer kit went on sale Monday for $3,500, with the first shipments heading out

00:15next month.

00:16Companies can use the kit to design and test their robots before moving to mass production.

00:21And once they're ready for scale, NVIDIA will sell production-grade Thor modules called

00:25the T5000 at around $3,000 each if a company orders at least 1,000 units.

00:31Thor delivers 7.5 times more AI computing power than NVIDIA's last-gen Orin chip, while being

00:373.5 times more energy efficient.

00:40CEO Jensen Wang says robotics is the company's biggest growth opportunity outside of artificial

00:46intelligence, and AI has already been a goldmine.

00:49NVIDIA's overall sales have more than tripled in just the past two years.

00:54That'll do it for your daily briefing.

00:55From the New York Stock Exchange, I'm Caroline Woods with The Street.