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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang demonstrated the Microduck robots during his keynote at the GTC Berlin conference, leading to over 20,000 preorders within a day. The Microducks, designed to perform tricks on command, are expected to be a popular holiday toy this Christmas season. With their open-source natu...
Dexory has announced the enhancement of its Storage Health feature through the integration of NVIDIA Cosmos, enabling better identification of storage issues in complex warehouse environments. This integration allows for the analysis of high-resolution imagery captured by Dexory's autonomous robots,...
Nvidia's GTC in Berlin marked the conclusion of CEO Jensen Huang's European tour, where he engaged with global leaders and unveiled new products. Discussions at the conference highlighted concerns over neocloud distress, with Huang noting that the demand for capital significantly exceeds its availa...
Ride-hailing company inDrive is partnering with Pony.ai and Nvidia to test robotaxis in Kazakhstan, starting in 2027. This initiative reflects a growing interest in autonomous driving technology outside the U.S. and China. Initial tests will occur in Astana with a safety operator present, aiming for...
On October 21, 2026, NVIDIA announced significant expansions to its open robotics development platform, NVIDIA Isaac, at GTC Berlin. The updates include humanoid references, datasets, and runtime enhancements, aiming to accelerate the deployment of general-purpose robotics in real-world environments...
Samsung Electro-Mechanics has secured a multiyear agreement to supply advanced semiconductor substrates for Nvidia's AI processors and networking chips. Concurrently, LG Innotek is collaborating with Nvidia to develop sensing systems for humanoid robots. These partnerships highlight the strategic ex...
Agile Robots has launched the Agile ONE SN, a humanoid research platform built on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor technologies. This compact robot, measuring 1.4 meters and weighing 43 kilograms, features 71 degrees of freedom and is equipped with advanced sensing capabilities, including RGB-D...
During the GTC Berlin event, four Microduck robots, each about 10 inches tall, showcased their abilities by walking, tumbling, and attempting somersaults. Developed by Pollen Robotics, these small bipeds demonstrated their agility and responsiveness under the guidance of NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang, who...
Nvidia has expanded its Isaac robotics platform, introducing new training data, simulation tools, runtime software, and safety technology. This update was showcased alongside Agile Robots' Agile ONE SN humanoid, which utilizes Nvidia's Isaac GR00T and Jetson Thor. The enhancements aim to accelerate...
Agile Robots has launched the Agile ONE SN, a compact humanoid robot designed with NVIDIA's robotics software and onboard computing capabilities. Announced at GTC Berlin on October 21, the Agile ONE SN is expected to be available in early 2027, providing research labs with a foundational platform fo...
Nebius has introduced an open-source framework designed for robotics teams, developed in collaboration with NVIDIA. This Physical AI Workbench facilitates the entire development cycle, encompassing data generation, simulation, training, and evaluation, thereby streamlining the process. The signific...
Comau is set to integrate NVIDIA's Physical AI simulation libraries and accelerated computing into its robotics products and system design processes. This collaboration aims to enhance the development of intelligent and autonomous robotics solutions tailored for industrial applications. The partner...
Bear Robotics has successfully reduced the processing time for its KR1 humanoid robot's model inference from 500 milliseconds to 60 milliseconds, achieving an eightfold improvement through NVIDIA software. This enhancement is facilitated by KINO-2, a new robot-learning platform that allows the KR1 t...
NVIDIA has introduced Minerva, an AIOps platform designed to enhance the productivity of AI factories by enabling early problem detection. By integrating telemetry from infrastructure and AI workloads, Minerva utilizes specialized AI models to provide actionable insights, addressing the complexities...
Agility Robotics has announced that its next-generation humanoid robot, Digit 5, will utilize NVIDIA IGX Thor modules for its onboard computing needs. This move expands the existing collaboration between Agility and NVIDIA, focusing on integrating AI computing with safety measures for broader commer...
NVIDIA has launched Flora, a suite of models designed to convert robot and human videos into labeled training data for robotics AI. This innovative system identifies specific actions, describes them linguistically, and evaluates task performance, facilitating the transformation of extensive video co...
UK robotics company Humanoid is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to enhance the computing architecture of its next-generation robots. The recent announcement on October 21 reveals that the transition to Jetson Thor has enabled Humanoid to consolidate two onboard computers into a single system...
Bear Robotics has launched KINO-2, a robot-learning platform designed to convert task demonstrations into deployable manipulation skills on its KR1 humanoid robot. This development is a result of Bear's collaboration with NVIDIA, leveraging their Physical AI technologies to enhance operational effic...
Humanoid, a UK-based AI and robotics firm, is expanding its collaboration with NVIDIA to develop the computing foundation for a new generation of humanoid robots. This partnership focuses on integrating NVIDIA's advanced robotics and edge computing technologies, including Jetson Thor and Isaac OS, i...
Schaeffler has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate its advanced actuator technology into 'Newton,' an open-source physics engine designed for robot learning and simulation. This initiative aims to enhance the capabilities of humanoid robots by leveraging NVIDIA's Isaac Lab and Isaac S...
NVIDIA is partnering with European governments to implement open models that enhance public sector efficiency while ensuring data control. These models allow governments to adapt solutions to local languages and services, maintaining sensitive information within their infrastructure. The initiative...
NVIDIA has launched the Earth-2 platform, providing developers and researchers with customizable AI models and tools for weather and climate prediction. The latest addition, StormScope EU, is designed for short-term forecasting in Europe, utilizing EUMETSAT satellite data to predict cloud conditions...
European retailers are leveraging NVIDIA's open models and physical intelligence to transform various aspects of their operations. Notably, Shopify has achieved a 90% reduction in inference costs while enhancing the accuracy of its AI assistant, Sidekick, through the use of NVIDIA technologies. Addi...
Companies worldwide are utilizing the NVIDIA DSX AI Factory Platform to integrate grid and factory systems, addressing significant power bottlenecks. With over $300 billion in equipment backlog and more than 200 gigawatts of projects pending in U.S. interconnection queues, the need for cohesive infr...
NVIDIA has enhanced the Cosmos platform to assist developers in building world models that enable physical AI systems to comprehend and simulate the real world. The updates include new training tools, simulation checkpoints, and Cosmos Data Factory blueprints, which rank among the top five on six op...
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote at GTC Berlin 2026, emphasizing the company's commitment to AI and its partnerships with major European firms. He highlighted NVIDIA's nearly $10 billion investment in the European technology ecosystem and the importance of building AI infrastructure to su...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced the DSX POD, a reference design for AI factories built in modular containers by partners. These units are pre-integrated and validated, allowing for rapid deployment that can be completed in as little as 14 days, compared to the traditional six-month timeline. This in...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that leading European ecosystem partners are implementing the NVIDIA DSX™ AI Factory Platform to create AI factories that significantly reduce water consumption and energy usage. This innovative platform allows for faster capacity deployment and adapts power consumpti...
NVIDIA has announced the launch of the OpenShell Reference Architecture, designed to facilitate the development and management of safe AI agents within enterprise and edge systems. This architecture builds on NVIDIA OpenShell secure runtime software, providing a comprehensive infrastructure that inc...
NVIDIA is broadening its open models portfolio, which now includes advancements in language, robotics, biology, and quantum computing. The new models, such as the NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Super VL and Bolt, along with the Kumo family and Cosmos models, provide developers and enterprises with customizable...
NVIDIA has expanded its open-source Agent Toolkit, enabling enterprises to customize and control agents that leverage company data for informed decision-making. The toolkit includes the NVIDIA Agent Knowledge Foundation, which transforms raw data into actionable intelligence, allowing agents to unde...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that major telecom operators are evolving their networks into distributed intelligence platforms by integrating NVIDIA accelerated computing into various sites. T-Mobile has achieved a milestone by conducting the first AI-RAN call on a live network in Bellevue, Washin...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced partnerships with global healthcare organizations to enhance protein design and drug discovery, utilizing the newly released RFD4-Proteina model. This initiative aims to shorten the gap between computational design and laboratory testing, crucial for developing new me...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced that major European automakers and mobility providers, including Bolt, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, are utilizing the NVIDIA Hyperion platform to develop autonomous vehicles and robotaxi fleets. This collaboration highlights the potential for lev...
At GTC Berlin, NVIDIA announced significant enhancements to the NVIDIA Isaac™ open robotics development platform, introducing a reference humanoid, datasets, and runtime updates. These advancements aim to streamline the transition from data to deployment, accelerating the integration of general-purp...
NVIDIA has announced the expansion of its Confidential Computing infrastructure with the introduction of Confidential Bare Metal, aimed at frontier model builders. This new deployment option allows organizations to run sensitive workloads on dedicated third-party infrastructure while maintaining con...
NVIDIA has announced the general availability of cuDSS, a CUDA-X library designed to enhance engineering and scientific simulations by leveraging GPU capabilities. This innovation addresses the increasing complexity of designs, which often leads to longer simulation times and higher computing demand...
Europe's industrial leaders are enhancing productivity and innovation by utilizing NVIDIA's CUDA-X and Omniverse libraries, along with Cosmos and Nemotron models, throughout the engineering and manufacturing lifecycle. The NVIDIA Factory Operations Blueprint (FOX) is now available in early access on...
The European AI cloud ecosystem is rapidly evolving due to increasing demand from AI-native developers for localized compute resources. NVIDIA Cloud Partners are enhancing regional compute capacity to support model training and inference, enabling the development of advanced AI applications while en...
NVIDIA has announced a collaboration with several supply chain partners to enhance global manufacturing capacity for its accelerated computing and AI factory platform. This initiative aims to address the increasing demand for AI infrastructure, with plans to expand substrate capacity by 2.5 times ov...
Google Cloud and NVIDIA have announced the general availability of A5X instances, set to launch next month, which will enhance cloud-based training and inference for large-scale reinforcement learning. This infrastructure integrates NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, and Google Cloud's a...
NVIDIA and OpenAI are both making significant investments in physical AI technologies, aiming to advance the field. The Snowball discussion forum is currently debating which stage of development will yield profits first, highlighting the competitive landscape in AI. As the industry evolves, stakeh...
European technology partners, including Nebius and Nscale, are leveraging NVIDIA Vera CPUs to advance local infrastructure. This shift highlights the rapid evolution of agentic computing, where agents perform complex tasks that require swift CPU processing. Vera's capabilities allow organizations to...
Germany has signed a significant agreement with Nvidia to develop advanced AI models tailored for industrial and physical applications. This initiative is part of the federal government's AI Roadmap and Industry 4.0 Platform, aiming to leverage Germany's industrial data and engineering expertise to...
The NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition, supplied by PNY, is transforming AI workflows by providing the necessary computing power for rapid prototyping and scalable deployment. With configurations supporting up to four GPUs, these workstations deliver up to 14.2 petaflops of AI comput...
Toyota Material Handling Europe has announced a collaboration with NVIDIA and SoftServe that aims to reduce the commissioning time for autonomous solutions by up to 50%. This partnership leverages AI-powered simulation and digital twin technologies, creating a simulation-first foundation for the dev...
Flexiv has integrated Nvidia Isaac into its adaptive robot, the Rizon 4, marking a significant milestone as the first robot of its kind to join this ecosystem. This integration is crucial as it enhances the capabilities of the Rizon 4, allowing it to leverage Nvidia's advanced AI technologies for i...
In Berlin, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang discussed Germany's AI roadmap, focusing on industrial applications. Huang highlighted NVIDIA's long-standing collaboration with German industries, emphasizing the importance of integrating AI into manufacturing and automotive s...
NVIDIA has announced a groundbreaking quantum computing simulation on JUPITER, Europe’s first exascale supercomputer. This simulation, which involves 104 qubits, is the largest comprehensive simulation of a fault-tolerant quantum processor to date, enabling researchers to explore magic state cultiva...
At a recent creative industry event in Berlin, NVIDIA announced its collaboration with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) to enhance sovereign standards for public service media. This initiative aims to integrate cloud, open models, and systems integrators to ensure broadcasters can deploy agents...
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