Most readers of Hackaday will be well aware of the current shortages of semiconductors and especially GPUs. Whether you ... Bray] chanced upon a pair of Nvidia Tesla K80 cards, which are not ...

Nvidia's Omniverse plus high-end GPUs, together with Tesla's real-world sensor data and humanoid Optimus, demonstrate that the requisite tools and compute are all in place for a robotics boom.

Nothing could be further from the truth. Quite literally, Musk put his money where his mouth is, and Tesla invested around $3-$4 billion in NVIDIA GPUs in 2024. Tesla has invested heavily in GPUs ...