National Robotics Week — Latest Physical AI Research, Breakthroughs and Resources

This National Robotics Week, running through April 12, NVIDIA is highlighting the pioneering technologies that are shaping the future of intelligent machines and driving progress across manufacturing, healthcare, logistics and more. Check back here throughout the week to learn the latest on physical AI, which enables machines to perceive, plan and act with greater autonomy
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NVIDIA Unveils Open Physical AI Dataset to Advance Robotics and Autonomous Vehicle Development

Teaching autonomous robots and vehicles how to interact with the physical world requires vast amounts of high-quality data. To give researchers and developers a head start, NVIDIA is releasing a massive, open-source dataset for building the next generation of physical AI. Announced at NVIDIA GTC, a global AI conference taking place this week in San
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Hyundai Motor Group Embraces NVIDIA AI and Omniverse for Next-Gen Mobility

Driving the future of smart mobility, Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) is partnering with NVIDIA to develop the next generation of safe, secure mobility with AI and industrial digital twins. Announced today at the CES trade show in Las Vegas, this latest work will elevate Hyundai Motor Group’s smart mobility innovation with NVIDIA accelerated computing,
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NVIDIA Announces Isaac GR00T Blueprint to Accelerate Humanoid Robotics Development

Over the next two decades, the market for humanoid robots is expected to reach $38 billion. To address this significant demand, particularly in industrial and manufacturing sectors, NVIDIA is releasing a collection of robot foundation models, data pipelines and simulation frameworks to accelerate next-generation humanoid robot development efforts. Announced by NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen
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Building Smarter Autonomous Machines: NVIDIA Announces Early Access for Omniverse Sensor RTX

Generative AI and foundation models let autonomous machines generalize beyond the operational design domains on which they’ve been trained. Using new AI techniques such as tokenization and large language and diffusion models, developers and researchers can now address longstanding hurdles to autonomy. These larger models require massive amounts of diverse data for training, fine-tuning and
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NVIDIA Unveils ‘Mega’ Omniverse Blueprint for Building Industrial Robot Fleet Digital Twins

According to Gartner, the worldwide end-user spending on all IT products for 2024 was $5 trillion. This industry is built on a computing fabric of electrons, is fully software-defined, accelerated — and now generative AI-enabled. While huge, it’s a fraction of the larger physical industrial market that relies on the movement of atoms. Today’s 10
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Dancing on Their Own: NVIDIA-Powered Robots to Adore From 2024

Artificial intelligence made big moves this year — as did the robots the technology is working behind. From Silicon Valley to India, Boston to Japan, here are some of the autonomous machines and robotics technologies, powered by NVIDIA AI, that offered helping hands in 2024. Clearbot Tidies Up Ocean Litter Hong Kong- and India-based Clearbot,
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Into the Omniverse: How OpenUSD-Based Simulation and Synthetic Data Generation Advance Robot Learning

Tools like NVIDIA Isaac Sim enhance synthetic data generation, improving AI model performance and accelerating robotics development.

NVIDIA Advances Physical AI With Accelerated Robotics Simulation on AWS

Field AI is building robot brains that enable robots to autonomously manage a wide range of industrial processes. Vention creates pretrained skills to ease development of robotic tasks. And Cobot offers Proxie, an AI-powered cobot designed to handle material movement and adapt to dynamic environments, working seamlessly alongside humans. These leading robotics startups are all
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Taste of Success: Zordi Plants AI and Robotics to Grow Flavorful Strawberries Indoors

With startup Zordi, founder Gilwoo Lee’s enthusiasm for robotics, healthy eating, better produce and sustainable farming has taken root. Lee hadn’t even finished her Ph.D. in AI and robotics at the University of Washington when investors seeded her ambitious plans for autonomous agriculture. Since researcher-turned-entrepreneur Lee founded Zordi in 2020 with Casey Call, formerly head
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