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AMD Robotics Starter Kit Kick-Starts the Intelligent Factory of the Future

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  • Kria KR260 Star­ter Kit enables rapid deve­lo­p­ment of hard­ware-acce­le­ra­ted appli­ca­ti­ons for robo­tics and indus­tri­al automation —
  • Deli­vers near­ly 5X pro­duc­ti­vi­ty gain, up to 8X bet­ter performance/watt and 3.5X lower laten­cy com­pared to com­pe­ti­ti­ve GPU-based solutions —

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 17, 2022 — Today AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced the Kria™ KR260 Robo­tics Star­ter Kit, the latest addi­ti­on to the Kria port­fo­lio of adap­ti­ve sys­tem-on-modu­les (SOMs) and deve­lo­per kits. A sca­lable and out-of-the-box deve­lo­p­ment plat­form for robo­tics, the Kria KR260 offers a seam­less path to pro­duc­tion deploy­ment with the exis­ting Kria K26 adap­ti­ve SOMs. With nati­ve ROS 2 sup­port, the 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.

“The Kria KR260 Robo­tics Star­ter Kits builds on the suc­cess of our Kria SOMs and KV260 Visi­on AI Star­ter Kit for AI and embedded deve­lo­pers, pro­vi­ding robo­ti­cists with a com­ple­te, out-of-the-box solu­ti­on for this rapidly gro­wing appli­ca­ti­on space,” said Che­tan Kho­na, seni­or direc­tor of Indus­tri­al, Visi­on, Health­ca­re and Sci­en­ces Mar­kets at AMD. “Robo­ti­cists will now be able to work in their stan­dard deve­lo­p­ment envi­ron­ment on a plat­form that has all the inter­faces and capa­bi­li­ties nee­ded to be up and run­ning in less than an hour. The KR260 Star­ter Kit is an ide­al plat­form to acce­le­ra­te robo­tics inno­va­ti­on and easi­ly take ide­as to pro­duc­tion at scale.”

With indus­try ana­lyst firm Omdia fore­cas­ting the robo­tics com­pon­ents mar­ket to grow at a com­pound annu­al growth rate (CAGR) of 20.4 per­cent bet­ween 2019 and 2025, with the over­all world mar­kets reve­nue to increase to appro­xi­m­ate­ly $126 bil­li­on by 20251, the Kria KR260 end-to-end adap­ti­ve robo­tics plat­form is expec­ted to deli­ver near­ly a 5X pro­duc­ti­vi­ty gain over com­pe­ti­ti­ve, Nvi­dia GPU-based solu­ti­ons2. Addi­tio­nal­ly, by acce­le­ra­ting the design cycle com­pared to chip-down design, the Kria SOM port­fo­lio typi­cal­ly offers up to a nine-month savings in time-to-deploy­ment, mea­ning get­ting star­ted beco­mes quick and easy for all kinds of deve­lo­pers with no FPGA exper­ti­se required.

Com­ple­te Indus­tri­al Solution
The KR260 hard­ware plat­form pro­vi­des pre-built inter­faces for robo­tics and indus­tri­al solu­ti­ons that, com­bi­ned with a gro­wing list of acce­le­ra­ted appli­ca­ti­ons deli­ver­ed via the AMD-Xilinx App Store, enable easy eva­lua­ti­on and a seam­less path to deployment.

Cen­tral to the KR260 design expe­ri­ence and making the bene­fits of adap­ti­ve com­pu­ting more acces­si­ble to the robo­tics com­mu­ni­ty is the Kria Robo­tics Stack (KRS), an inte­gra­ted set of robot libra­ri­es and uti­li­ties that use hard­ware to acce­le­ra­te the deve­lo­p­ment, main­ten­an­ce and com­mer­cia­liza­ti­on of indus­tri­al-gra­de robo­tic solu­ti­ons tar­ge­ting Kria SOMs. The low-laten­cy, adap­ti­ve com­pu­ting archi­tec­tu­re of Kria SOMs imple­men­ted with KRS and ROS 2 can deli­ver over 8X bet­ter performance/watt3 and up to 3.5X lower laten­cy4 com­pared to com­pe­ti­ti­ve GPU-based solutions.

The KR260 also includes sup­port for the wide­ly-adopted Ubun­tu embedded ope­ra­ting sys­tem, pro­vi­ding com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with the latest long-term sup­port (LTS) ver­si­ons of Ubun­tu Linux Desk­top (22.04) from Cano­ni­cal and ROS 2 Hum­ble Hawksbill.

AMD is col­la­bo­ra­ting with Open Robo­tics, the crea­tors of ROS 2 and other open soft­ware and hard­ware plat­forms for robo­tics, to vali­da­te and ensu­re com­pli­ance of our ROS 2 imple­men­ta­ti­on for the robo­tics community.

“The Kria SOM fami­ly and KR260 Star­ter Kit pro­vi­de the robo­tics com­mu­ni­ty with a gre­at com­bi­na­ti­on of per­for­mance, fle­xi­bi­li­ty and rapid deve­lo­p­ment time,” said Bri­an Ger­key, CEO of Open Robo­tics. “Users can crea­te soft­ware-defi­ned hard­ware and build solu­ti­ons offe­ring high per­for­mance per watt, with secu­ri­ty, ener­gy-effi­ci­en­cy and adap­ta­bi­li­ty. Open Robo­tics is exci­ted to be col­la­bo­ra­ting with AMD-Xilinx to under­stand and address the needs of robo­ti­cists using hard­ware acce­le­ra­ti­on to build new robot appli­ca­ti­ons with the KR260 deve­lo­p­ment platform.” 

Pri­cing and Availability
The Kria KR260 Robo­tics Star­ter Kit is pri­ced at $349 and is imme­dia­te­ly available from AMD and its net­work of world­wi­de dis­tri­bu­tors. The KR260 star­ter kit adds to the available Kria KV260 Visi­on AI Star­ter Kit, pro­vi­ding an easy-to-use deve­lo­p­ment plat­form for desig­ning visi­on applications.

AMD will show­ca­se the Kria pro­ducts at the 2022 Embedded Visi­on Sum­mit, May 16–19 at the San­ta Cla­ra Con­ven­ti­on Cen­ter. Visit the AMD-Xilinx booth #319 to see the latest tech­no­lo­gy demons­tra­ti­ons or check out the track ses­si­on, “Intro­du­cing the Kria Robo­tics Star­ter Kit, Robo­tics and Machi­ne Visi­on for Smart Fac­to­ries” on May 17 at 2:40 p.m. to learn more.

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