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ResearchMicrosoft ResearchFrom the source· Ganesh Ananthanarayanan, Matthew Balkwill, Xenofon Foukas, Sanjeev Mehrotra, Bozidar Radunovic, Connor Settle, Ankit Verma, David White, Shawn Cicoria, Mark Martin, Rachel Johnson, Mayur Patel·· 23 days agoPicks

Microsoft Research: offloading physical-AI inference from robots can improve task performance and battery life

Offloaded inference for real-world physical AI robotics

What happened

Microsoft Research systematically measured mobile-robot manipulation workloads and found that moving physical-AI inference from an onboard GPU to an edge or cloud GPU can improve task performance and extend battery life.

Why it matters

Microsoft Research measured robot inference workloads and reports performance and battery-life data for offloading inference from onboard hardware to edge or cloud GPUs.

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