Nvidia has announced Jetson Thor, a high-performance computer chip designed to serve as a brain for sophisticated robots. With 7.5 times the power of its predecessor, it enables machines to think, react and work in ways that were not possible before,

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang is bullish on the future of robotics, and sees it as the chipmaker's biggest opportunity outside of AI. Today the company announced the next generation of its Jetson AGX system-on-module called Jetson Thor. The developer kit and T5000 production modules are computers designed for physical AI and robotics.

Launched on Monday, the chip giant said that with the new Jetson Thor modules, robots around the world “are about to get a lot smarter.” Nvidia launched Thor via a video (top) featuring the company’s long-time CEO Jensen Huang handing a gift box to a humanoid robot with a message card that says,