NVIDIA Pairs Up With U.S. Manufacturing and Robotics Teams for Physical AI Plans

NVIDIA shares that the nation’s manufacturers, industrial software developers and robotics companies are using NVIDIA Omniverse technologies to build robotic factories and new autonomous collaborative robots to help address labor shortages and drive American reindustrialization, according to NVIDIA.

“AI is transforming the world’s factories into intelligent thinking machines—the engines of a new industrial revolution,” says Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Together with American’s manufacturing leaders, we’re building physical AI, Omniverse digital twins and collaborative robots that will drive productivity, resilience and competitiveness across the U.S. industrial base.”

Industrial AI Era

NVIDIA is expanding its “Mega” NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for simulating robot fleets to include technologies for designing and simulating factory digital twins. Siemens is the first company to develop digital twin software that supports the Mega Omniverse Blueprint. Currently in beta testing, the new industrial technology stack will be part of the Siemens Xcelerator platform. It will help engineers design and operate large-scale digital twins of factories that bring together realistic 3D models with live operational data. 

FANUC and Foxconn Fii are among the first robot manufacturers to support 3D, OpenUSD-based digital twins of their robots for manufacturers to drag and drop equipment into their digital twins.

AI-Driven Factories

Caterpillar is applying Omniverse to build digital twins of its factories and supply chains, for use in advanced manufacturing capabilities such as predictive maintenance and dynamic scheduling, NVIDIA NIM microservices to drive workflow automation and predict and optimize factory maintenance, and NVIDIA cuOpt software to optimize supply chain performance.

Lucid Motors is using Omniverse to build digital twins of its factories for real-time factory planning and optimization, as well as to train AI-driven robotics systems. Toyota is using idealworks’ iw.sim technology, which integrates capabilities from the Mega Omniverse Blueprint, to create digital twins of its Georgetown, KY, facility and explore complex automation scenarios.

TSMC is using Omniverse to accelerate fab design and construction, as well as the NVIDIA Isaac platform for the development of robotics for specific operations at its Phoenix, AZ, facility. 

Robotic Workforce

Robotics companies are using NVIDIA’s three-computer architecture to build and deploy advanced fleets of robots to bridge skills gaps and improve safety across industries.

Figure and NVIDIA announced a collaboration to accelerate next‑generation humanoid robotics. Using NVIDIA accelerated computing to build its Helix vision language action model and the Isaac platform for simulation and training, Figure is building a large‑scale humanoid fleet capable of everything from household chores to industrial support.

Amazon Robotics is using Omniverse libraries and frameworks to shorten the development of Amazon’s various manipulation systems and mobile robots, which run on the NVIDIA Jetson platform.

Sources: Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.