Dexmate x NVIDIA

Dexmate is a Santa Clara-based robotics startup building Vega, a general-purpose wheeled humanoid robot with 36 degrees of freedom, 15 kg payload arms, and dexterous hands for industrial automation. Founded in 2024 by MIT CSAIL PhD Tao Chen and UCSD PhD Yuzhe Qin, the company emphasizes dexterous manipulation and hardware-software co-design over bipedal locomotion, using an omnidirectional wheeled base for [Stability](/companies/stability-ai) in logistics and manufacturing environments. Dexmate is an NVIDIA Inception partner backed by LG Technology Ventures and Epsilon Ventures.

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](/brains/gr00t-n1), the first open humanoid foundation model.