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Design & Simulation Software Guide 2025
In this Special Issue, Digital Engineering presents its second annual guide to design and simulation software vendors.
Design & Simulation Software Guide
In this Special Issue, Digital Engineering presents its inaugural guide to design and simulation software vendors, including listings for CAD, CAM, simulation, generative design, PLM, rendering and visualization, design for additive manufacturing,…
MetAI, a Taiwan-based member of NVIDIA's Inception startup program, is building AI-powered simulation environments powering the next generation of industrial and physical AI. As part of its plan to boost simulation-driven AI development, MetAI is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse technologies, including NVIDIA USD Search microservices, into its digital twin generation platform, MetGen—enabling development of 3D SimReady environments from 2D CAD blueprints.
MetGen, MetAI's SimReady environment generation engine, can transform standardized 2D CAD files and structured data into high-fidelity, operational digital twins—ready for AI training, robotics testing, automation logic refinement, and synthetic data generation. With the integration of NVIDIA USD Search, users can instantly locate and retrieve standardized SimReady assets from connected libraries.
"From layout blueprints to SimReady assets, we're building the infrastructure needed to train the next generation of industrial and physical AI," says Daniel Yu, co-founder and CEO of MetAI. "By integrating NVIDIA USD Search, we're enabling a closed-loop workflow—where users can generate assets with MetGen, build their own searchable libraries, and dynamically retrieve components to streamline simulation creation. This shortens setup cycles and unlocks scalable, intelligent environment generation."
The integration has been validated and is currently in pilot deployment. Key capabilities include:
This milestone marks a move toward realizing Real-to-Sim and Sim-to-Real workflows—starting with warehouse automation and scaling into other industrial domains.
MetAI is exploring additional applications of this workflow across sectors such as data center construction, advanced manufacturing lines, and robotics training environments. MetGen prepares for its beta release in August 2025, and the MetAI team remains focused on building an extensible ecosystem of SimReady digital twins tailored for industrial AI development.
Learn more about MetAI and MetGen: https://www.met-ai.com
Read about NVIDIA USD Search: USD Search Overview
Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.
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