Jetson AI Lab
Research Group
A global collective for advancing open-source Edge ML, open to anyone to join and collaborate with others from the community.
Upcoming Meetings
Regular Series: 2nd Tuesday of every month
Next Meeting Details
- Time: 9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM EST / 5:00 PM GMT
- Platform: Microsoft Teams
Research Topics
Our group explores cutting-edge research areas in edge AI and robotics. These topics represent our current focus areas.
Controller LLMs for dynamic pipeline code generation
Fine-tuning LLM/VLM onboard Jetson AGX Orin 64GB
HomeAssistant.io integration for smart home
Continuous multi-image VLM streaming and change detection
Recurrent LLM architectures (Mamba, RKVW, etc)
Lightweight low-memory streaming ASR/TTS models
Diffusion models for image processing and enhancement
Time Series Forecasting with Transformers
Guidance, grammars, and guardrails for constrained output
Inline LLM function calling / plugins from API definitions
ML DevOps, edge deployment, and orchestration
Robotics, IoT, and cyberphysical systems integration
The Jetson AI Lab Research Group is a global collective for advancing open-source Edge ML, open to anyone to join and collaborate with others from the community and leverage each other’s work. Our goal is using advanced AI for good in real-world applications in accessible and responsible ways.
By coordinating together as a group, we can keep up with the rapidly evolving pace of AI and more quickly arrive at deploying intelligent multimodal agents and autonomous robots into the field.
There are virtual meetings that anyone is welcome to join, offline discussion on the Jetson Projects forum, and guidelines for upstreaming open-source contributions.
Upcoming Meetings
Regular Series: 2nd Tuesday of every month
We are pleased to announce the resumption of the Jetson AI Lab Research Group Community calls. The primary objective of these calls remains consistent with our past meetings. We aim to discuss emerging trends, share insights on exciting projects undertaken by members of this group, address any issues or roadblocks, and explore new frameworks and libraries.
We will share more details during the call. We look forward to reconnecting with all of you.
Join the Discord server to stay involved and receive the latest updates.
Research Topics
Our group explores cutting-edge research areas in edge AI and robotics. These topics represent our current focus areas and will evolve as the state-of-the-art progresses and new challenges emerge.
Contribution Guidelines
When experiments are successful, we package the results in ways that make them easily reusable for others to integrate into their own projects. We encourage contributions through multiple channels:
- Open-source libraries & code on GitHub
- Models on HuggingFace Hub
- Containers provided by jetson-containers
- Discussions on the Jetson Projects forum
- Documentation & tutorials on Jetson AI Lab
- Hackster.io for hardware-centric builds
Ongoing technical discussions are encouraged to occur on the forums, Discord, or GitHub Issues, with status updates on projects given during the meetings.
Meeting Schedule
Regular Series: 2nd Tuesday of every month starting September 9, 2025
We hold virtual meetings that anyone is welcome to join and speak during. We discuss the latest updates and experiments that we want to explore. Please remain courteous to others during the calls. We’ll stick around after for anyone who has questions or didn’t get the chance to be heard.
Future Meetings
- October 14th, 2025 - 2nd Tuesday
- November 11th, 2025 - 2nd Tuesday
- December 9th, 2025 - 2nd Tuesday
- January 13th, 2026 - 2nd Tuesday
Please join the #events channel on the Discord server for the latest info. The meetings will be recorded so anyone unable to attend live can watch them after.
Past Meetings
Our meeting recordings and resources are available for review and reference.
Core Contributors
Our research group brings together experts from academia, industry, and the open-source community who are passionate about advancing edge AI and robotics. Below are some of our sustaining members who have been actively contributing to generative AI in edge computing.
Past Meetings
Our meeting recordings and resources are available for review
September 9, 2025
Jetson Thor Introduction
- • Jetson Thor Introduction
August 13, 2025
Q3 Kickoff & New Format
- • Jetson Community Q3 Kickoff call & new format
October 15, 2024
LeRobot & Stanley H1 Humanoid
- • HuggingFace LeRobot (Chitoku Yato)
- • Stanley H1 Humanoid (Dave Niewinski)
October 1, 2024
ReMEmbR & Diffusion Policies
- • ReMEmbR: Long-Horizon Memory for Navigation (Abrar Anwar)
- • Diffusion Policies, Shape LLM, 3D Encoders
September 17, 2024
NASA JPL ROSA & LeRobot Walkthrough
- • NASA JPL - ROSA (Rob Royce & Shehryar Khattak)
- • LeRobot Walkthrough (Chitoku Yato)
- • VLM Agent in Isaac Sim/ROS (Kabilan Kb)
September 3, 2024
Edge NeRF & OpenVLA Review
- • Edge NeRFs and nerfstudio (Johnny Núñez Cano)
- • Review of OpenVLA results (Dustin Franklin)
- • Oculus Interface for Jetson (Al Costa)
Core Contributors
Our research group brings together experts from academia, industry, and the open-source community who are passionate about advancing edge AI and robotics.
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat
Institute of Smart Systems and AI
Researcher | Kazakhstan
Johnny Núñez Cano
PhD Researcher in CV/AI | Barcelona, Spain
Akash James
Spark Cognition
AI Architect, UC Berkeley Researcher | Oakland, CA
Dana Sheahen
NVIDIA
DLI Curriculum Developer | Santa Clara, CA
Patty Delafuente
NVIDIA
Data Scientist & UMBC PhD Student | MD
Jesse Flot
CMU Robotics Academy
Co-Director | Pittsburgh, PA
David Pearson
ConnectTech
Embedded Systems Engineer | Ontario, CA
Ori Nachum
Innovation
AI Expert |
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By coordinating together as a group, we can keep up with the rapidly evolving pace of AI and more quickly arrive at deploying intelligent multimodal agents and autonomous robots into the field.