Nvidia unveils generative physical AI platform, agentic AI advances at CES

“These robots are driven by physical AI models that can understand and interact with their environments,” Lebaredian said. “While language models generate text or video from text or image prompts, physical AI will generate their next action based on instructions. Physical AI will completely revolutionize the world’s industrial markets, bringing AI into 10 million factories and 200,000 warehouses.”

Lebaredian said that most people think of Nvidia’s robotics and automotive businesses as the computer in the robot or car. But, he said, the real opportunity is the AI factory. Currently, developers of humanoid robots rely on hundreds of human operators performing thousands of repetitive demonstrations to teach a handful of skills. And autonomous vehicle (AV) developers need to drive millions of miles and process, filter, and label the thousands of petabytes of data they capture.

“Ultimately, no matter how much real-world data you collect and how many miles you drive, we’ll always need synthetic data to perfect models and ensure they can perform well even in long-tail, edge-case scenarios,” Lebaredian said.