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
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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:

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.

Dustin Franklin

Dustin Franklin

Principal Engineer | Pittsburgh, PA

jetson-inferencejetson-containers
Nurgaliyev Shakhizat

Nurgaliyev Shakhizat

Institute of Smart Systems and AI

Researcher | Kazakhstan

Assistive DevicesVision2Audio
Kris Kersey

Kris Kersey

Kersey Fabrications

Embedded Software Engineer | Atlanta, GA

The OASIS ProjectAR/VR
Johnny Núñez Cano

Johnny Núñez Cano

PhD Researcher in CV/AI | Barcelona, Spain

Recurrent LLMsPose & Behavior Analysis
Doruk Sönmez

Doruk Sönmez

ConnectTech

Intelligent Video Analytics Engineer | Turkey

NVIDIA DLI InstructorIVA
Akash James

Akash James

Spark Cognition

AI Architect, UC Berkeley Researcher | Oakland, CA

NVIDIA AI AmbassadorPersonal Assistants
Mieszko Syty

Mieszko Syty

FutureProofHomes

AI/ML Engineer | Warsaw, Poland

Home AssistantEdge AI
Jim Benson

Jim Benson

JetsonHacks

DIY Extraordinaire | Los Angeles, CA

AI in EducationRACECAR/J
Chitoku Yato

Chitoku Yato

NVIDIA

Jetson AI DevTech | Santa Clara, CA

JetBotJetRacer
Dana Sheahen

Dana Sheahen

NVIDIA

DLI Curriculum Developer | Santa Clara, CA

AI in EducationJetson AI Fundamentals
Sammy Ochoa

Sammy Ochoa

NVIDIA

Jetson AI DevTech | Austin, TX

Metropolis Microservices
John Welsh

John Welsh

NVIDIA

Engineer |

NanoOWLNanoSAM
Dave Niewinski

Dave Niewinski

Dave's Armoury

Roboticist | Waterloo, Ontario

GLaDOSFetch
Gary Hilgemann

Gary Hilgemann

REBOTNIX

CEO & AI Roboticist | Lünen, Germany

GUSTAVSPIKE
Elaine Wu

Elaine Wu

Seeed Studio

AI & Robotics Partnerships | Shenzhen, China

reComputerYOLOv8
Patty Delafuente

Patty Delafuente

NVIDIA

Data Scientist & UMBC PhD Student | MD

AI in EducationDLI Robotics Teaching Kit
Song Han

Song Han

MIT HAN Lab

NVIDIA Research | Cambridge, MA

Efficient Large ModelsAWQ
Bryan Hughes

Bryan Hughes

Mimzy AI

Founder, Entrepreneur | SF Bay Area

Multimodal AssistantsAI at the Edge
Tianqi Chen

Tianqi Chen

OctoML / CMU Catalyst

CTO | Seattle, WA

MLCApache TVM
Michael Grüner

Michael Grüner

RidgeRun

Team Lead / Architect | Costa Rica

Embedded Vision & AIMultimedia
Jesse Flot

Jesse Flot

CMU Robotics Academy

Co-Director | Pittsburgh, PA

Applied AI & RoboticsAutonomy Foundations
Paul DeCarlo

Paul DeCarlo

Microsoft / University of Houston

Professor | Houston, TX

Azure IoTVideo Analytics
Mike Hansen

Mike Hansen

Nabu Casa

Voice Engineering Lead | Urbandale, Iowa

Home AssistantPiper TTS
Lakshantha Dissanayake

Lakshantha Dissanayake

Ultralytics

Embedded CV Engineer | Vancouver, BC

YOLOv8TensorRT
Kerry Shih

Kerry Shih

GenAI Nerds

Founder, CEO | Los Angeles, CA

Gapi
Ziad Youssfi

Ziad Youssfi

CMU

ECE Professor | Pittsburgh, PA

ML in RoboticsEmbedded Systems
Walter Lucetti

Walter Lucetti

Stereolabs

Robotics & Vision Engineer | Paris, France

MyzharBotROS2
Raffaello Bonghi

Raffaello Bonghi

NVIDIA

AI & Robotics Engineer | Manchester, UK

NanosaurPanther
Alvaro Costa

Alvaro Costa

TeknTrash

CEO & Founder | Epsom, UK

Stipra DatasetIndustrial Automation
David Pearson

David Pearson

ConnectTech

Embedded Systems Engineer | Ontario, CA

Edge AI SystemsVision/Language Models
Jason Seawall

Jason Seawall

Numurus

CEO | Seattle, WA

NEPIEdge AI & Automation
Martin Cerven

Martin Cerven

AI Researcher | Germany

Autonomous RoboticsVoicecraft
Romil Shah

Romil Shah

Amazon

GenAI IIoT @ AWS | San Jose, CA

genai-at-edge
Kabilan Kb

Kabilan Kb

Roboticist

NVIDIA DLI Ambassador | Tamil Nadu, IN

ROS2 TutorialsAutonomous Wheelchair
Ori Nachum

Ori Nachum

Innovation

AI Expert |

AIInnovation

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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.