QNX OS for Safety 8.0 meets NVIDIA IGX Thor as automotive-grade safety extends to robots, surgery and the factory floor
QNX and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to integrate QNX OS for Safety 8.0 with NVIDIA's IGX Thor industrial edge AI platform, enhancing safety-critical applications in robotics and industrial automation. The integration combines real-time control and functional safety with accelerated AI workloads.
QNX, a BlackBerry-owned real-time operating system division, has expanded its collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate QNX OS for Safety 8.0 with NVIDIA's IGX Thor industrial edge AI platform. This integration was announced at Hannover Messe and aims to enhance safety-critical applications in robotics, medical imaging, and industrial automation. The combined system puts real-time control and functional safety on QNX, while accelerating AI workloads on NVIDIA. The integration is a pre-integrated answer to the reconciliation problem between safety certification needs and AI inference requirements. As robotics and industrial systems become more autonomous and software-defined, safety and determinism are crucial. The QNX-NVIDIA stack extends a proven architecture from automotive to regulated, intelligent systems.
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