Karsten Patzaldt

Karsten Patzaldt is a senior manager on the NVIDIA Robotics Platform team. He has been with NVIDIA for 14 years, having worked on wide-ranging topics including camera processing pipelines, sensor hubs, GPU drivers, sensing for autonomous vehicles and robotics safety. He’s currently focused on on-device frameworks for robotics.
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Posts by Karsten Patzaldt

Robotics Sep 22, 2026

Accelerating a ROS 2 Node with an AI Agent and NVIDIA Isaac ROS

GPU acceleration can speed up compute-intensive robotics workloads, but a fast CUDA kernel alone does not guarantee a fast ROS 2 graph. As messages move between... 12 MIN READ