RealSense and NVIDIA demo a local VLM describing a room 10x per second on Jetson Thor
chrismatthieu · x · 2026-09-24
At ROSCon booth 17, chrismatthieu demonstrated a RealSense + NVIDIA Robotics setup: the new zero-copy RealSense SDK streams frames to a local VLM on a Jetson Thor in low-power mode, describing the scene about 10 times per second fully on-device.
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