What Is Robotics Simulation?

Robots are moving goods in warehouses, packaging foods and helping assemble vehicles — bringing enhanced automation to use cases across industries. There are two keys to their success: Physical AI and robotics simulation. Physical AI describes AI models that can understand and interact with the physical world. Physical AI embodies the next wave of autonomous
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Foxconn Expands Blackwell Testing and Production With New Factories in U.S., Mexico and Taiwan

To meet demand for Blackwell, now in full production, Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is using NVIDIA Omniverse. The platform for developing industrial AI simulation applications is helping bring facilities in the U.S., Mexico and Taiwan online faster than ever. Foxconn uses NVIDIA Omniverse to virtually integrate their facility and equipment layouts, NVIDIA Isaac
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Japan Tech Leaders Supercharge Sovereign AI With NVIDIA AI Enterprise and Omniverse

From call centers to factories to hospitals, AI is sweeping Japan. Undergirding it all: the exceptional resources of the island nation’s world-class universities and global technology leaders such as Fujitsu, The Institute of Science Tokyo, NEC and NTT. NVIDIA software — NVIDIA AI Enterprise for building and deploying AI agents and NVIDIA Omniverse for bringing
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Japan’s Market Innovators Bring Physical AI to Industries With NVIDIA AI and Omniverse

Robots transporting heavy metal at a Toyota plant. Yaskawa’s robots working alongside human coworkers in factories. To advance efforts like these virtually, Rikei Corporation develops digital twin tooling to assist planning. And if that weren’t enough, diversified retail holdings company Seven & i Holdings is running digital twin simulations to enhance customer experiences. Physical AI
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NVIDIA Advances Robot Learning and Humanoid Development With New AI and Simulation Tools

Robotics developers can greatly accelerate their work on AI-enabled robots, including humanoids, using new AI and simulation tools and workflows that NVIDIA revealed this week at the Conference for Robot Learning (CoRL) in Munich, Germany. The lineup includes the general availability of the NVIDIA Isaac Lab robot learning framework; six new humanoid robot learning workflows
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The Three Computer Solution: Powering the Next Wave of AI Robotics

ChatGPT marked the big bang moment of generative AI. Answers can be generated in response to nearly any query, helping transform digital work such as content creation, customer service, software development and business operations for knowledge workers. Physical AI, the embodiment of artificial intelligence in humanoids, factories and other devices within industrial systems, has yet
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How Digital Twins Are Driving Efficiency and Cutting Emissions in Manufacturing

Improving the sustainability of manufacturing involves optimizing entire product lifecycles — from material sourcing and transportation to design, production, distribution and end-of-life disposal. According to the International Energy Agency, reducing the carbon footprint of industrial production by just 1% could save 90 million tons of CO₂ emissions annually. That’s equivalent to taking more than 20
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NVIDIA Brings Generative AI Tools, Simulation and Perception Workflows to ROS Developer Ecosystem

At ROSCon in Odense, one of Denmark’s oldest cities and a hub of automation, NVIDIA and its robotics ecosystem partners announced generative AI tools ,simulation, and perception workflows for Robot Operating System (ROS) developers. Among the reveals were new generative AI nodes and workflows for ROS developers deploying to the NVIDIA Jetson platform for edge
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Figure Unveils Next-Gen Conversational Humanoid Robot With 3x AI Computing for Fully Autonomous Tasks

Silicon Valley’s Figure has taken the wraps off of its next-generation Figure 02 conversational humanoid robot that taps into NVIDIA Omniverse and NVIDIA GPUs for fully autonomous tasks. Figure said it recently tested Figure 02 for data collection and use-case training at BMW Group’s Spartanburg, South Carolina, production line. Figure 02 comes just 10 months
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