Swift + Jetson: Robots in Minutes

Robotics setup typically takes days. Driver hell, cross-compilation, peripherals you didn't know you needed, OS flashing methods nobody documents. The team at Wendy Labs in San Francisco is fixing that with a Swift-based toolchain that treats NVIDIA Jetson and Raspberry Pi like an iPhone: plug it in over USB, push code, ship.

I went to their lab to see if it actually works. We talked through the autonomous robot dog they got following by voice command in two days, the Jetson hardware tiers (from Orin Nano up to AGX Thor running full LLMs), the Apache 2.0 open-source stack, and why Swift's C++ interop matters when you're bringing existing robotics code into a higher-level language. Also got into multi-spectral cameras, WASM on microcontrollers, and what an "app store for robots" might actually look like.

If you've ever lost a hackathon weekend to setup, this is the video.

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Key moments
00:00:00 Live from Wendy Labs in San Francisco
00:00:49 The Robotics Hackathon Problem
00:02:44 Solving Robotics Infrastructure Issues
00:03:10 NVIDIA Jetson Powered Robots
00:04:01 Autonomous Robot Dog Demo
00:05:15 Wendy Labs Swift Infrastructure
00:06:20 Typical Robotics Setup Process
00:07:49 Hardware for Autonomous Vehicles
00:09:18 Robot Dog Sensors and Capabilities
00:10:39 On-Device Vision Model Processing
00:13:00 Cloud Connectivity and Security
00:14:14 The Reality of Robot Intelligence
00:15:38 Getting Started with Robotics Programming
00:16:45 Autonomous Drone for Forest Fires
00:19:24 Retroactive Programming with LLMs
00:21:11 LLM-Powered Autonomous RC Car
00:22:32 NVIDIA Jetson Hardware Tiers
00:26:27 Wendy OS Installation Process
00:28:39 Robot Dog Live Programming Setup
00:32:00 Wendy.sh Website and Documentation
00:35:35 WASM on Microcontrollers
00:38:25 Wendy Labs Company Overview
00:42:21 The Power of the Swift Language
00:46:54 Container Infrastructure Deep Dive
00:49:07 Future Wendy for Mac Support
00:50:04 Live Robot Dog Camera Feed
00:52:12 Creating an App Store for Robots
00:55:07 Cloud Infrastructure in Swift
00:58:28 Building a Custom Alexa Speaker
01:00:20 Roadmap for Home Assistant Robots
01:02:11 Humanoid Robot Demonstration
01:04:16 OS-Level Sensor Management
01:06:22 Multi-Spectral Camera Support
01:08:10 Hiring and Community Growth
01:09:00 Exponential Speed of AI Development
01:11:11 US vs. China in Robotics Hardware
01:12:35 Getting Started with Wendy Labs
01:13:30 Final Words and Next Stream
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Видео Swift + Jetson: Robots in Minutes канала Ray Fernando