NVIDIA open-sources cuRoboV2-Fast, a robot planner that works in 4.4 ms

NVIDIA researchers Balakumar Sundaralingam, Adithyavairavan Murali and Stan Birchfield have open-sourced cuRoboV2-Fast under Apache 2.0 through NVlabs, a robot motion planner that performs collision-free, torque-limited planning in 4.4 ms. Sundaralingam wrote on X on November 5th that the first cuRobo prototype in 2022 took 100 ms and consumed the whole GPU, making the new planner roughly 20 times faster after four years of kernel work. The release gives research teams and robotics companies a planner they can inspect and benchmark on their own arms while respecting payload and torque limits.

NVIDIA open-sources cuRoboV2-Fast, a robot planner that works in 4.4 ms Sundaralingam, who built the first 100 ms cuRobo prototype in 2022, is releasing NVIDIA's 4.4 ms planner with Adithyavairavan Murali and Stan Birchfield. By Ryan Merket https://runtimewire.com/author/ryan-merket · Published Primary source: Aligned News — AI Intelligence https://x.com/balakumar /status/2118408305857228876 Why it matters Motion planning sits between a robot seeing an object and moving to grasp it. Cutting that step to 4.4 ms on stated hardware, while respecting payload and torque limits, reduces the time spent planning a path. Releasing it under Apache 2.0 through NVlabs gives research teams and robotics companies a planner they can inspect, benchmark on their own arms, and build products around. Balakumar Sundaralingam @balakumar https://x.com/balakumar ?ref=runtimewire started cuRobo with a planner that took 100 ms. "In 2022, our first cuRobo prototype took 100 ms and consumed the whole GPU," he wrote in a thread on X https://x.com/balakumar /status/2118408305857228876?ref=runtimewire on November 5th. Four years of kernel work later, he is open-sourcing cuRoboV2-Fast under Apache 2.0, with collision-free, torque-limited motion planning in 4.4 ms. When you purchase through links in our articles, we may earn a small commission https://runtimewire.com/affiliate-monetization-standards . This doesn’t affect our editorial independence.