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Company

NVIDIA

World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA).

Founded
1993
HQ
Santa Clara, California, USA
Status
NASDAQ: NVDA

Patents

6

Overview

World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA). In physical AI, NVIDIA develops the Isaac robotics platform: the GR00T open foundation model, Jetson edge compute (AGX Thor), Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim simulation environments, and Omniverse. NVIDIA positions itself as the platform layer for the humanoid industry. Developer of GR00T N1, the first open humanoid foundation model.

Verified record

Verified deployments
None on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

Company

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA); founded 1993; CEO Jensen Huang

Robotics Platform

NVIDIA Isaac - robotics simulation (Isaac Sim), perception (Isaac ROS), and training; Jetson Orin edge AI platform for embedded robotics; Omniverse for digital twin simulation

Leadership

Deepu Talla (VP Robotics and Edge), Rev Lebaredian (VP Omniverse), Gaurav Agarwal (Director Robotics PM), Ian Buck (VP Hyperscale/HPC)

Customers

BMW, Mercedes, Amazon (Proteus AMR), JD Logistics, Siemens, BMW Group, Foxconn, BYD, Nuro, Zoox, Uber

Patents

3 USPTO robotics patents (Isaac Sim training, multi-modal fusion, edge computing) under NVIDIA assignee; thousands of GPU/AI patents

Platform Versions

Isaac Sim 4.0 (2024); Jetson Orin Nano/AGX; Omniverse Isaac Gym for reinforcement learning; Isaac ROS for ROS2 integration

Cross-Category

NVIDIA compute spans AV (Drive), robotics (Isaac/Jetson), drones, AMR, humanoid - multi-form-factor brain provider

Vera Rubin NVL72

Rack-scale system: 72 Rubin GPUs + 36 Vera CPUs, NVLink gen-6; 30x throughput/MW vs GB300 NVL72 on agentic workloads; full production Aug 2026

Vera CPU

First CPU built for AI agents; 88 Olympus cores, SMT-X (176 threads), 1.2TB/s LPDDR5X; commercial availability fall 2026

SpaceX partnership

Co-designed space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 for Starmind AI1 satellite; launch Q4 2027

Data & sources

Press releases

3

Patent documents

6

Web sources

7

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Partnerships

Every company NVIDIA has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1109 total774 operating222 just announced4 ended

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Agility Robotics7× joint20 total
  2. 2Uber7× joint31 total
  3. 3Boston Dynamics4× joint23 total
  4. 4Figure AI3× joint15 total
  5. 5Foxconn (Hon Hai)3× joint5 total
  6. 6Fujitsu3× joint

Robots powered by NVIDIA

NVIDIA’s brains run inside 2 registry-tracked models across 2 makers, with 12 verified deployments on the map.

Brains

Makers running these brains

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Claims ledger

Public, dated claims by NVIDIA, each tracked against the evidence. Status is a DEPLOY assessment from primary sources: verified means an independent source confirms it; contradicted means one refutes it; open means the outcome is not yet determinable. Every entry keeps its verbatim quote and source so you can check the call yourself.

Claim Integrity: 0% (0 of 1 resolved claims verified; 4 tracked)
  • Partly trueCapability · claimed 2026-06-05
    Robotics is South Korea's next major sector

    South Korea has a strong robotics industry (Doosan Robotics KOSPI IPO, Hyundai/Boston Dynamics). Korean robot stocks surged after Huang's comment. The claim is directionally supported but "next major sector" is vague. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/nvidia-ceo-sees-robotics-next-major-sector-south-korea-2026-06-05/

  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-03-18
    Every industrial company will become a robotics company

    This is a strategic vision statement, not a measurable claim with a deadline. It reflects NVIDIA's positioning as the compute platform for physical AI. ABB and FANUC are partners, confirming some industry alignment, but "every industrial company" is unfalsifiable.

  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-03-18
    The entire manufacturing line will be autonomous

    No manufacturing line is fully autonomous as of July 2026. BMW has Figure 03 and Boston Dynamics Stretch in pilot/demonstration. Tesla is converting Fremont for Optimus. The claim is aspirational. https://www.cnbc.com/ (interview)

  • OpenCapability · claimed 2026-01-06 · deadline 2026-12-31
    Humanoid robots will reach human-level ability this year

    Claim made at CES 2026 (January 2026). No humanoid robot has demonstrated human-level ability in any verified deployment as of July 2026. Agility's Digit performs specific warehouse tasks (tote moving) but not "human-level ability" broadly. Figure 03 is in pilot at BMW. Tesla Optimus has no deployment. The claim is the most aggressive humanoid capability prediction in the industry — and it's from the platform provider, not a robot manufacturer. https://www.manufacturingdive.com/news/industrial-robotics-companies-everywhere-says-nvidia-ceo-gtc-2026-abb-fanuc-ai/815042/

Disagree with a status? NVIDIA can submit a correction with evidence and we log the response on the record. Methodology and the full industry ledger live at /stats/claim-integrity.

Current leadership (12)

  • Emmet Peppers Creator, Robot Brains Podcastsecondary-verified
  • Robert Scoble Technology Futurist and Authorsecondary-verified
  • Jensen Huang Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
  • Jim Fan Senior Research Scientist, Embodied AI Lead, NVIDIAsecondary-verified
  • Mike Volpi General Partner, Index Venturessecondary-verified
  • Lucilla Sioli Director of AI, European Commissionsecondary-verified
  • Deepu Talla executiveSEC-verified
  • Stefano Quintarelli Technologist and Former Parliamentariansecondary-verified
  • Dieter Fox Senior Director of Robotics Research, NVIDIAsecondary-verified
  • Rev Lebaredian executivesince 2019-01-01secondary-verified
  • Colette Kress executivesince 2013-01-01SEC-verified
  • Ian Buck executivesince 2004-01-01secondary-verified

Founders (1)

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Former / Previously (6)

  • Zhang Jianzhong Global Vice President & GM Chinasecondary-verified
  • Mi Liangchuan GPU / autonomous-driving (former)reported, not verified
  • Jason Ma Research Scientist (NVIDIA AI)secondary-verified
  • Yuzhe Qin Research Intern, Roboticssecondary-verified
  • Helen Oleynikova Robotics Researcher (co-created nvblox)secondary-verified
  • Gaurav Agarwal executivesince 2020-01-01secondary-verified

Media (2)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

PRIMARY SOURCE
Courtesy of NVIDIA

NVIDIA introduction of its Jetson AGX Thor robotics compute module for physical AI and humanoids. The maker specs it at up to 2,070 FP4 TFLOPS and 7.5x the AI performance of Jetson AGX Orin.

Safety record

No incidents on record for NVIDIA.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

NVIDIA on the data-center map

Every verified data center NVIDIA operates that has a mapped coordinate (18 total). Filled circles are Tier-2 facilities and Tier-1 campuses under this operator; click any pin to open its record.

NVIDIA data centers (19)

AI data centers NVIDIA operates or is a party to, from the DEPLOY data center registry.

Brains developed (3)

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