As a discerning AI investor who values style and substance, Sarah Guo knows this season’s standout accessory isn’t the latest designer purse — but what’s inside it.
In a recent video, Guo, founder of AI-native venture capital firm Conviction and co-host of the AI podcast No Priors, highlighted how the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge AI and robotics gives busy developers both power and portability in one agentic-ready AI platform built for the physical world — and every industry. The best part? It all fits in one handbag.
Compact enough to carry in a bag, yet powerful enough to take on the toughest problems, NVIDIA Jetson modules and developer kits power robots, autonomous machines and real-world AI projects in classrooms, labs and makerspaces — wherever inspiration strikes — enabling developers to build using industry-transforming frontier open models at the highest standard of safety and security.
Whether for a student running their first robotics project on Jetson Orin Nano Super, a professor bringing cutting-edge AI to their curriculum on Jetson AGX Orin or a researcher pushing the limits of autonomous systems with Jetson AGX Thor, the platform enables building, learning and launching the next generation of intelligent robots — in every classroom, every lab and every country.
As Guo shows: bring the bag, Jetson brings the robot brain.
Check back here throughout the week for a series of examples — beginning with the Jetson Orin Nano Super below — to help developers navigate the NVIDIA Jetson platform and get started on their next robotics breakthroughs.
NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super: Ideal for Building a First AI Robot
Robots deserve a real brain and, apparently, an incredibly chic commute. When Guo popped the Jetson Orin Nano Super into her Jacquemus Mini, she gained the entire AI stack right at her fingertips — now with a cute handle: clutch!
Jetson Orin Nano Super brings desktop-class generative AI to a handbag-friendly developer kit, offering first-time builders a practical path to learning computer vision, building AI agents, prototyping edge AI and more. With 67 trillion operations per second (TOPS) of AI performance, Jetson Orin Nano Super helps developers get started on the problems they’ve always wanted to solve.
To help builders move from inspiration to implementation, NVIDIA Jetson Device Skills and Jetson BSP Skills give students, researchers and developers an easier way to harness coding AI agents to create, optimize and deploy real-world AI at the edge.
Robot builders can get inspired to start their first — or next — dream project with these innovative examples of Jetson Orin Nano Super in action:
Self Driving My EV Car | Model SidewalkPilot
A custom SidewalkPilot AI model autonomously executes maneuvers in a toy electric vehicle using Jetson Orin Nano Super.
Reachy Mini Jetson Assistant
Reachy Mini Jetson Assistant is a low-latency, fully on-device voice and vision assistant for Reachy Mini Lite powered by NVIDIA Jetson Orin Nano Super. Everything runs locally with GPU acceleration — no cloud, no API keys, no internet required at runtime. Get started here.
Building My First AI Robot From Scratch
Coding with Lewis constructed an AI-powered robot using Mistral — an open-weight model — showing that first time robotics developers can build from the ground up using Jetson Orin Nano Super.
Robotics AI Podcast
Using Jetson Orin Nano Super, Asier Arnaz built a Yocto-powered Robotics AI video podcast featuring two AI models discussing topics in real-time and highlighting what makers are creating at the edge.
Inspired yet? Get started by joining our livestream series. Across three modules, developers can learn to run generative AI, build claw agents and bring vision-language and vision-language-action models to power real-world physical AI applications — all on NVIDIA Jetson.
Bring Powerful AI to Real-World Machines With Jetson AGX Orin
With 275 TOPS of AI performance, Jetson AGX Orin is there when workloads get more complex. For Guo, it’s simple: more TOPS, more tote.
For more advanced makers, Jetson AGX Orin brings the full power of AI into coursework, capstone projects and applied research, powering advanced robots, autonomous machines and AI at the edge — and proving serious AI no longer has to live in a server room, or be reserved for those who can afford one.
Jetson AGX Orin lets builders test real ideas in real environments, then carry the whole thing to class, the lab, the demo table or that first investor meeting.
With versatility for advanced robotics curriculum and serious startup projects, Jetson AGX Orin can support computer vision, generative AI, autonomous navigation and more, making it ideal for transforming virtually every industry, whether creating delivery bots, smart vision capabilities or industrial automation.
Go next-level with these innovative examples of Jetson AGX Orin in action:
Live VLM WebUI
A browser-based interface streams live vision language model inference on Jetson AGX Orin, letting users interact with a VLM in real time through their camera feed.
SMoRes
A Carnegie Mellon University robotics team’s autonomous system builds a 3D map of an environment while simultaneously searching for survivors in time-critical rescue scenarios.
Tomorrow, build bigger than ‘back to school’ with Jetson AGX Thor.