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Private research university in Los Angeles, California, founded 1880. Major robotics institution with the [Usc interaction lab](/companies/usc-robotics), USC Robotics Research Lab, and Institute for Creative Technologies. Pioneered socially assistive robotics, robot learning by demonstration, and autonomous navigation. Home to Maja Matarić's socially assistive robotics program.

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.