Kudan Inc. announced that under the collaboration with NVIDIA Corporation, they have completed the development and optimization of Kudan Visual SLAM (KdVisual) for Jetson, an Edge AI platform, and have decided to launch this product. In conjunction with this, Kudan is also announced that they will be exhibiting at NVIDIA GTC 2024, the world's largest AI technology conference, to be held in the United States on March 18-21, 2024. KudanSLAM is the software that provides localization and environmental mapping, which are essential for autonomous mobility of robots, self-driving cars, digital twins, etc., and Kudan provides both camera-based KdVisual and Lidar-based KdLidar to the market.

In addition, NVIDIA's Jetson platform is a GPU-equipped platform offered for all AI technologies, including generative AI, and Kudan has previously optimized KdLidar for the Jetson platform. Kudan has now completed the development of optimization to KdVisual for NVIDIA's Jetson platform, which also incorporates deep learning technology. With this development, developers in industries such as robotics, autonomous driving, and digital twins, who are customers of both Kudan and NVIDIA, can now fully leverage the capabilities of both products even in environments where cameras are used in addition to Lidar.

This will provide a significant boost to developers towards even more accurate and stable autonomous mobility of robots, autonomous driving, practical digital twins, and other advancements. Also, as KdVisual uses camera images to provide environmental mapping and localization in the map, it has a particularly high synergy with AI technology among various SLAM approaches. This optimisation is expected to further increase product value and open up new possibilities for machine understanding of the real world and interaction with humans, including enhanced environmental understanding, adaptation and anomaly detection in target applications, as well as real-time, interactive experiences for users, including mixed reality.

In response to this progress, Kudan has implemented this technology into its Mobile Robot Development Kit, making it even more efficient for the customers to develop products for robots. In addition, Kudan will deepen its collaboration with NVIDIA and will exhibit at NVIDIA GTC 2024, the world's largest AI technology conference, jointly with Vecow, a smart Edge AI platform solution provider and the partner company of Kudan and NVIDIA in Taiwan, to promote technologies and MRDK including their live demonstrations. NVIDIA GTC 2024 is a technology conference that will lead the AI era, bringing together developers, researchers, IT decision makers, and business leaders to shape the world with the power of AI computing, and Kudan will take this opportunity to work together with NVIDIA and Vecow to promote the next generation of SLAM technology.