Concepts
Fundamentals, perception, control — the theory behind robotics.
Welcome to the Robotics Glossary
From fundamentals to production — understand the complete robotics stack
Why This Glossary?
The robotics documentation landscape is fragmented. NVIDIA PDFs, ROS wikis, academic papers, Discord threads — knowledge is scattered across dozens of sources.
This glossary brings it together in one hyperlinked knowledge graph organized by domain, with content tagged by type:
Conceptual Theory & foundations Practical Hands-on guides Deep Dive Comprehensive coverage
Hardware
Compute platforms like Jetson Thor, Orin, and DGX Spark.
Software
ROS 2, Isaac ROS, simulation tools, and the NVIDIA stack.
Featured
Jetson Thor NVIDIA's 800+ TOPS platform for humanoid robots
DGX Spark Desktop AI supercomputer for development
Jetson Orin Edge AI platform (275 TOPS), now in LTS
Isaac ROS GPU-accelerated ROS 2 packages
SLAM Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
ROS 2 Robot Operating System
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