Nvidia unveils Jetson Orin Nano 2 for edge AI in drones and robots
Nvidia has introduced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an entry-level edge robotics computer aimed at bringing physical AI to drones, robots, and vision systems. The company says the device lets developers run generative AI models directly on-device instead of relying on data centers, a setup designed for real-time inference at the edge. According to Nvidia, Jetson Orin Nano 2 delivers 78 trillion AI operations per second, along with 8GB of memory and an eight-core Arm CPU. Nvidia also said the new system offers double the inference performance of the current Jetson Orin Nano Super while cutting power consumption by 40% in 15-watt mode. The hardware supports large language models and vision-language models, including Nvidia’s Cosmos and Nemotron, as well as Gemma 4 and Qwen 3. Nvidia robotics and edge AI vice president Deepu Talla said the product is intended to bring what he described as breakthrough performance to millions of developers. Companies including Cognex, Doosan Bobcat, and Matic have already started adopting or exploring the platform. Wing, Alphabet’s drone delivery unit, plans to evaluate the system to improve real-time AI perception and inference for faster and safer deliveries, while Matic Robots plans to use it to add conversational AI, gesture detection, and semantic understanding to its home cleaning robots.








