Japanese industrial machinery company Fanuc (OTCPK:FANUY) announced earlier this month it was teaming with Nvidia (NVDA) to bring artificial intelligence to its factories and production simulations.
Fanuc, which makes robot arms, will use Nvidia’s robotic simulation framework and incorporate it into its own software. It will also bring together other software makers to work with Nvidia so they’re capable of designing robots to better recognize voice commands, avoid human injury and track moving parts.
The partnership brings Fanuc deeper into the world of “physical AI,” where machines are capable of making decisions based on data acting upon them instantly. It will also see the two companies build robots that use Nvidia’s GPUs, with the robots trained inside Nvidia’s virtual factory, part of its “digital twin” initiative.
Nvidia has been pushing deeper into robotics in recent memory and recently announced that its Jetson AGX Thor, AGX Orin and Jetson Orin Nano Super developer kits will be on sale until Jan. 11 to help “give anyone the power to build intelligent robots of the future.”
