For robotaxis and other autonomous vehicles (AVs), the hardest problems aren’t the everyday scenarios. They’re the rare, complex situations that are difficult to anticipate and train for. Handling these long‑tail events takes more than just object detection and motion prediction. AVs must understand the situation, reason about cause and effect, choose the right action and […]
At CVPR, NVIDIA is unveiling new physical AI agent skills that help researchers and developers speed the development of autonomous vehicles, robots and vision AI systems. The core challenge in physical AI research isn’t simply developing stronger models. It’s building a full workflow around them — reconstructing real-world scenes, generating edge-case scenarios, training policies, evaluating […]
This Spring Astronomy Day, here’s a look at how AI and GPUs are helping astronomers work through unprecedented volumes of cosmic data.
This National Robotics Week, NVIDIA is highlighting the breakthroughs that are bringing AI into the physical world — as well as the growing wave of robots transforming industries, from agricultural and manufacturing to energy and beyond. Advancements in robot learning, simulation and foundation models are accelerating development, enabling robots to move from training in virtual […]
Cities worldwide face unprecedented challenges as urban populations surge and infrastructure strains to keep pace.
Editor’s note: This post is part of the AI On blog series, which explores the latest techniques and real-world applications of agentic AI, chatbots and copilots. The series also highlights the NVIDIA software and hardware powering advanced AI agents, which form the foundation of AI query engines that gather insights and perform tasks to transform
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Robots around the world are about to get a lot smarter as physical AI developers plug in NVIDIA Jetson Thor modules — new robotics computers that can serve as the brains for robotic systems across research and industry. Robots demand rich sensor data and low-latency AI processing. Running real-time robotic applications requires significant AI compute
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Physical AI is becoming the foundation of smart cities, facilities and industrial processes across the globe. NVIDIA is working with companies including Accenture, Avathon, Belden, DeepHow, Milestone Systems and Telit Cinterion to enhance operations across the globe with physical AI-based perception and reasoning. The continuous loop of simulating, training and deploying physical AI offers sophisticated
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NVIDIA was today named an Autonomous Grand Challenge winner at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) conference, held this week in Nashville, Tennessee. The announcement was made at the Embodied Intelligence for Autonomous Systems on the Horizon Workshop. This marks the second consecutive year that NVIDIA’s topped the leaderboard in the End-to-End Driving at
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NVIDIA Research has developed an AI light switch for videos that can turn daytime scenes into nightscapes, transform sunny afternoons to cloudy days and tone down harsh fluorescent lighting into soft, natural illumination. Called DiffusionRenderer, it’s a new technique for neural rendering — a process that uses AI to approximate how light behaves in the
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From Seattle, Washington, to Cape Town, South Africa — and everywhere around and between — AI is helping conserve the wild plants and animals that make up the intricate web of life on Earth. It’s critical work that sustains ecosystems and supports biodiversity at a time when the United Nations estimates over 1 million species
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Named after Greek mythology’s goddess of the sea, France-based startup Amphitrite is fusing satellite data and AI to simulate and predict oceanic currents and weather. It’s work that’s making waves in maritime-shipping and oceanic litter-collection operations. Amphitrite’s AI models — powered by the NVIDIA AI and Earth-2 platforms — provide insights on positioning vessels to
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Enterprises and public sector organizations around the world are developing AI agents to boost the capabilities of workforces that rely on visual information from a growing number of devices — including cameras, IoT sensors and vehicles. To support their work, a new NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarization will enable developers in virtually
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Hitachi Rail, a global transportation company powering railway systems in over 50 countries, is integrating NVIDIA AI technology to lower maintenance costs for rail operators, reduce train idling time and improve transit reliability for passengers. The company is adopting NVIDIA IGX — an industrial-grade, enterprise-level platform that delivers high-bandwidth sensor processing, powerful AI compute, functional
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India is home to the globe’s second-largest road network, spanning nearly 4 million miles, and has over a thousand tollbooths, most of them run manually. Traditional booths like these, wherever in the world they’re deployed, can contribute to massive traffic delays, long commute times and serious road congestion. To help automate tollbooths across India, Calsoft,
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Millions of people already use generative AI to assist in writing and learning. Now, the technology can also help them more effectively navigate the physical world. NVIDIA announced at SIGGRAPH generative physical AI advancements including the NVIDIA Metropolis reference workflow for building interactive visual AI agents and new NVIDIA NIM microservices that will help developers
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NVIDIA and the Loss Prevention Research Council (LPRC) are collaborating with several AI companies to showcase a real-time solution for combating and preventing organized retail crime (ORC). The integrated offering provides advance notifications of suspicious behavior inside and outside stores so that authorities can intervene early. The LPRC includes asset-protection executives from more than 85 Read article >
An avid cyclist, Thomas Park knows the value of having lots of gears to maintain a smooth, fast ride. So, when the software architect designed an AI inference platform to serve predictions for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s (OCI) Vision AI service, he picked NVIDIA Triton Inference Server. That’s because it can shift up, down or sideways Read article >
Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Ontario, Canada, is the country’s largest and busiest airport, serving some 50 million passengers each year. To enhance traveler experiences, the airport in June deployed the Zensors AI platform, which uses anonymized footage from existing security cameras to generate spatial data that helps optimize operations in real time. A member Read article >