Future Tech 2024: Build Your Own Star Wars Droid – Goran Vuksic

I will show you how I built several Star Wars droids. One of them, a realistic Pit Droid, was empowered with NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano. The droid can perform AI object detection, move its head toward the objects, and more. In Star Wars, Pit Droids are repair droids designed to maintain racing vehicles “podracers”. These droids are 1.2 meters in height and can fold when not in use. Their funny behavior is explained in a way that they were programmed with a sense of urgency but without enough processing power to perform some complex tasks. NVIDIA Developer post: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/08/03/goran-vuksic-pit-droid/ Hackster project: https://www.hackster.io/gvuksic/nvidia-jetson-orin-nano-powered-pit-droid-7da0e8 Through this session, you will: – hear how this robot was assembled, – learn about Azure AI Studio & Azure Custom Vision – learn how to easily prepare and tag images for model training, – see how to train a model for object detection, – analyse images from the camera of the robot, – control motor and other IoT devices connected to the robot, – and much more. I hope this session will give you a great introduction to AI and IoT, and inspire you to build similar projects on your own!