Fanuc partners with Nvidia to advance physical AI in industrial robotics
Evidence notes
- • Fanuc partnered with Nvidia to integrate Nvidia's AI computing and simulation platforms into Fanuc's industrial robot portfolio.
- • The collaboration focuses on on-robot and edge inference using Nvidia hardware platforms like Jetson, and photorealistic, physics-aware simulation using Nvidia Isaac Sim.
- • Fanuc also released support for the open-source robotics platform ROS 2, allowing programming via Python.
Company context
FANUC is a major Japanese industrial robotics and factory automation company with a broad robot portfolio spanning collaborative arms, heavy-payload industrial robots, CNC systems, and factory automation equipment.