NVIDIA Research Advances Physical AI with Innovative Graphics Technologies
NVIDIA has unveiled groundbreaking advancements in physical AI at SIGGRAPH 2025, merging neural rendering, 3D generation, and simulation to enhance robotics and autonomous systems. The company introduced new software libraries, including Nvidia Omniverse NuRec for large-scale world reconstruction and updates to the NVIDIA Metropolis platform for vision AI.
Sanja Fidler, NVIDIA's Vice President of AI Research, highlighted the symbiotic relationship between AI and simulation. "AI is advancing our simulation capabilities, and our simulation capabilities are advancing AI systems," Fidler stated. The Cosmos and Nemotron reasoning models aim to equip robots and vision AI agents with human-like reasoning by leveraging prior knowledge and physics understanding.