university-of-miami x nvidia

The University of Miami's robotics research is primarily housed in the **Robotics and Autonomous Systems cluster** within the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering (College of Engineering), with interdisciplinary collaborations spanning the Miller School of Medicine, the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, the Rosenstiel School of Marine [Science](/companies/science-corp), and the School of Architecture. Research spans medical/surgical robotics, assistive devices, legged robots with bioinspired robotic tails, robotic exoskeletons, autonomous vehicles, underwater vehicles, drones, and human-machine collaboration. The flagship lab is the **Robotics and Mechatronics Laboratory (RMLab)**, directed by Dr. Pinhas Ben-Tzvi.

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.