Nvidia Declares the Rise of ‘Physical AI’ — and a World Run by Robots

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AI is no longer just living in data centers and chatbots. Nvidia says it is stepping into the physical world.

At its GTC conference, Nvidia announced a major push to accelerate “physical AI.” The company revealed new AI models, simulation frameworks, and partnerships with global robotics companies to help build the next generation of robots for factories, hospitals, and logistics systems.

Nvidia said it’s working with robotics companies across multiple sectors, from industrial manufacturing to humanoid robots, to deploy AI-powered machines at scale.

The collaborations aim to combine robotics hardware with Nvidia’s AI computing, software frameworks, and simulation tools so robots can be trained in virtual environments before operating in the real world.

“Physical AI has arrived — every industrial company will become a robotics company,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a statement. “Nvidia’s full-stack platform — spanning computing, open models and software frameworks — is the foundation for the robotics industry, uniting a worldwide ecosystem to build the intelligent machines that will power the next generation of factories, logistics, transportation and infrastructure.”

New AI models and simulation tools

To support the robotics ecosystem, Nvidia…