just made it possible to evaluate generalist robotics models... like Octo at 60-100x real world evaluation speeds via gpu simulation and rendering (~10x faster than original cpu sim code). All videos below are from our open source ManiSkill GPU sim!show more

Generalist robots need multimodal learning—fusing vision, touch, and body... motion to handle unstructured worlds. 🦾 NVIDIA Isaac Lab is a GPU-accelerated, open-source simulation framework for robot learning that unifies physics, rendering, sensing, and parallel computing to train robot policies at scale. Learn more 🔗 #NVIDIAResearchshow more

Building robots that can effectively operate alongside human workers... is difficult. 🛠️ Advances in open-source physics, open foundation models, and frameworks are helping accelerate physical #AI deployment. ✔️ Newton Physics Engine, an open-source GPU-powered simulation built on OpenUSD, speeds up robot learning for advanced manipulation and mobility. ✔️ NVIDIA Cosmos Reason, an open reasoning vision language model, gives robots the ability to think like humans using prior knowledge, common sense and physics ✔️NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.6, an open robot foundation model, enables humanoids to understand ambiguous instructions Leading robotics developers including Agility Robotics, Lightwheel, Mentee Robotics, UniversalRobots, and Wandelbots are adopting simulation technologies and libraries to accelerate physical AI development and deployment. Omniverse Ambassador Dylan Tobin built an AI chatbot trained on Isaac Sim workflows, helping devs navigate Omniverse faster. Read the full blog 👉show more

Sand simulation in Unreal using Niagara GPU particles that... take their velocity from the smoke sim to give it the swirling / spinning motion. All real-time. This will be covered in Niagara Automotive. I just opened the waitlist here:show more

GR00T-VisualSim2Real is now open source! VIRAL and DoorMan are... now available with training code, simulation assets, and the full recipe for bringing visual sim-to-real loco-manipulation skills to your own humanoids. Repo:show more

Robora Sim: A PyBullet-Powered Environment for Learning Robotic Physical... Intelligence We are currently building our Robora simulation environment setup for our sim based learning, leveraging PyBullet, an industry-standard physics engine widely used in AI-driven robotics research and development. The environment is optimized with GPU-accelerated learning algorithms, enabling high-speed imitation learning and reinforcement learning within a safe and controlled virtual setup before shipping out to real world. This simulation platform allows our models to learn, adapt, and generalize across different robot morphologies, terrain types and task objectives - all before deployment to the real world. At it's core, the system combines a VLA-powered high-level planner with low-level motion control algorithms, working cohesively to produce emergent, physically intelligent behaviors. This synergy between simulation, learning, and real-world transfer marks a major step forward in our pursuit of adaptive and intelligent robotic systems. Through advanced domain randomization and synthetic data generation, the Robora Simulation Environment ensures that policies trained in simulation transfer effectively to real-world robots, minimizing the sim-to-real gap. Moreover, users will be able to test and integrate their own hardware kits within selected simulation environments in the Robora Dapp, ensuring seamless compatibility and safer real-world implementation.show more

How does high-fidelity tactile simulation help robots nail the... last millimeter? We’re releasing VT-Refine, accepted to CoRL: a real-to-sim-to-real visuo-tactile policy using a GPU-parallel tactile sim for our piezoresistive skin FlexiTac. Then fine-tuning a diffusion policy with large-scale RL in simulation. Website: #CoRL2025 #RobotLearning #Sim2Realshow more

Microsoft killed the GPU mafia 🤯 They finally open-sourced... their 1-bit LLM inference framework called bitnet.cpp. It lets you run 100B parameter models on your local CPU without GPUs. - 6.17x faster inference - 82.2% less energy on CPUs 100% Open Source.show more

NVIDIA just made Pandas 150x faster with zero code... changes. All you have to do is: %load_ext cudf.pandas import pandas as pd Their RAPIDS library will automatically know if you're running on GPU or CPU and speed up your processing. You can try it here: Repo:show more

my old GPU is screaming, anyway is rendering this... real time, respect to old GPU / artists :)show more

Introducing MuJoCo 3.0: a major new release of our... fast, powerful and open source tool for robotics research. 🤖 📈 GPU & TPU acceleration through #JAX 🖼️ Better simulation of more diverse objects - like clothes, screws, gears and donuts 💡 Find out more:show more

Excited to share a few presentations, demos, and workshop... talks from our group and collaborators at #ICRA2026! We will present recent work on real-to-sim-to-real robot policy evaluation, model-based planning with learned dynamics, and multi-modal manipulation. We will also have a joint live demo between SceniX AI and Analog Devices, Inc. on real-to-sim-to-real cable manipulation at the ICRA exhibition. This is a small teaser of what we have been building, with more to come soon! If you are at ICRA, please stop by the sessions or the demo booth. Happy to chat about robot learning, simulation, world models, and sim-to-real!show more

Nintendo Switch 2: today we can finally confirm full... specifications, CPU/GPU clock speeds and how much in the way of system resources are available to game developers:show more

Introducing: DeCloud GPU Marketplace Dear Cloudians, We are thrilled... to introduce another robust addition to the DeCloud Ecosystem, furthering our commitment to promoting decentralization at its pinnacle. The DeCloud GPU Marketplace is a cutting-edge platform designed to revolutionize the way you access and utilize GPU resources for your diverse computational needs. Users can harness the power of GPU resources for a multitude of purposes, including but not limited to: ^Mining various cryptocurrencies ^Utilizing AI/ML learning datasets ^Rendering high-resolution videos and 3D models Decentralization, Safety, and Privacy: At DeCloud, we prioritize decentralization, safety, and privacy. By providing access to different GPU providers and private connections, we ensure a secure and privacy-oriented system for our users. Your data and computational tasks are safeguarded within our decentralized DeCloud ecosystem.show more

ROBA Compute is our GPU execution layer for robotics.... A distributed infrastructure layer for simulation, training, inference, and autonomous workflows — built for our stack first, then opened to external builders. GPU rental is already a category. The missing layer is robotics-native infrastructure: templates, allocation, benchmarking, and persistent execution for embodied AI. That’s the opportunity. ROBA Compute is designed to become the infrastructure layer where robotics workloads actually run.show more

it's open source time, with a real leap for... world models 🎉 NVIDIA's SANA-WM: a camera-conditioned world model that fits on one GPU. 60s of 720p in 34s on a single 5090 - 2.6B params and Apache 2.0!show more

It’s live. AxonDAO’s GPU fleet is installed and will... soon be rentable on the open market via vast.ai. Premium GPU capacity - 8x NVIDIA B200 and 8x RTX Pro 6000 - built for large-scale AI training, inference, rendering, and research workloads. 🧵show more

Trained a simple world model for my robot arm.... It predicts the future over 20000 times faster than real time on a single NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU (128 batch -> 160x faster each).show more

Mole just shipped v1.31.0 Makima with faster performance and... more accurate system status reporting. Huge thanks to all contributors. Still fully open source and free, made possible by the community effort behind it.show more

Someone just built a desktop app that that generates... 3D models from images and runs 100% locally. It's called Modly. It runs entirely on your GPU, no cloud, no API bills. Just drop an image and get a 3D mesh. 100% Open Source.show more