NVIDIA JetPack 7.2 Full Setup: PyTorch, ROS 2 & LeRobot in 30 Minutes (2026)

Setting up PyTorch, CUDA, ROS 2, and LeRobot on a Jetson Orin used to take a week. With JetPack 7.2 you can do it in about 30 minutes, and this is the exact clean path, including the prerelease PyTorch wheel that nobody documents. JetPack 7.2 finally brings Ubuntu 24.04, ROS 2 Jazzy, Python 3.12, and CUDA 13.2 to the Jetson Orin, which fixes the version-locking mess that made JetPack 6 so painful. In this video I flash a fresh install on the Seeed reComputer Super (Orin NX 16GB), build a working GPU PyTorch stack, run ROS 2 Jazzy with turtlesim, and get the SO101 arms teleoperating, all from a clean install. The catch: the working PyTorch build for JP7.2 on Orin is a prerelease cu132 wheel that isn't in NVIDIA's compatibility matrix and won't show up in the normal pip commands. I got the link from the Seeed engineers, and the full one-pager with every command is on GitHub below so you can skip the debugging I went through. THE WORKING STACK (Jetson Orin NX 16GB, JetPack 7.2) Ubuntu 24.04, CUDA 13.2, Python 3.12 torch 2.12.1+cu132, torchvision 0.27.1+cu132 (prerelease) numpy 2.2.6 ROS 2 Jazzy LeRobot 0.6.0 LINKS Full setup guide + one-pager (GitHub): https://github.com/iuliaferoli/jetson... Seeed reComputer JP7.2 flashing guide: https://wiki.seeedstudio.com/recomput... 📂 Get the Curriculum & Code: reComputer Jetson for Beginners (GitHub) https://github.com/Seeed-Projects/reC... How I set up JetPack 6 (the old, painful way):    • what they don't tell you about building fo...   Setting up the SO101 arms:    • Can I build an AI Robot Arm to do my chores?   Hardware used in this series: ReComputer NVIDIA Board https://www.seeedstudio.com/reCompute... SO101 Arms https://www.seeedstudio.com/SO-ARM-10... use my coupon code for a discount: 2000K5N8 PyCharm, the official IDE of Back to Engineering: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ CHAPTERS 0:00 Why setup can cost you weeks 0:53 The version domino problem 1:32 What JetPack 7.2 fixes 2:15 Flashing 7.2 (getting the right image) 3:29 PyCharm + virtual environment 4:42 CUDA test + the PATH gotcha 5:07 PyTorch: the cu132 wheel nobody documents 6:00 ROS 2 Jazzy + turtlesim 7:09 LeRobot + the SO101 arms 8:16 Shout-outs & what's next This series is made in collaboration with ‪@SeeedStudioSZ‬ . Thank you to our channel sponsor, ‪@PyCharmIDE‬. Thanks for watching, and let's get back to engineering. #Jetson #NVIDIA #JetPack #ROS2 #PyTorch #PhysicalAI #Robotics #LeRobot #EdgeAI #OrinNX