NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) announced partnerships with major robotics companies including ABB Robotics, FANUC, KUKA, Universal Robots, and YASKAWA to develop physical AI systems for industrial applications, according to a company statement.

The chipmaker unveiled new simulation frameworks and AI models, including NVIDIA Cosmos world models, NVIDIA Isaac simulation frameworks, and NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N models, designed to accelerate robot development and deployment.

"Physical AI has arrived — every industrial company will become a robotics company," said Jensen Huang, NVIDIA's founder and CEO.

The collaboration involves companies with a combined install base exceeding 2 million robots. These partners are integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and Isaac simulation frameworks into their systems for robot application development and production line validation through digital twins.

NVIDIA introduced Cosmos 3, described as the first world foundation model combining synthetic world generation, vision reasoning, and action simulation. The company also announced Isaac Lab 3.0 in early access, built on the Newton physics engine 1.0 and NVIDIA PhysX software development kit.

Humanoid robot developers including 1X, AGIBOT, Agility, Boston Dynamics, and Figure are using NVIDIA's Cosmos world models and Isaac simulation tools. NVIDIA announced GR00T N1.7 is available in early access with commercial licensing for robot deployments.

Healthcare applications include CMR Surgical using Cosmos-H simulation for its Versius surgical system, and Medtronic exploring NVIDIA IGX Thor for surgical robotic systems. Johnson & Johnson MedTech is using Isaac Sim-based workflows for the Monarch Platform for Urology.

The announcement was made at NVIDIA's GTC conference. The company stated these partnerships aim to expand AI-driven automation across manufacturing, logistics, and healthcare sectors.