Nvidia unleashes super computer AI robots that will “learn” how to navigate and control the physical world

Nvidia unleashes super computer AI robots that will “learn” how to navigate and control the physical world

Ethan Huff

Nvidia, the tech company that is just about singlehandedly propping up the entire United States stock market, announced this week that it has the capacity to start building human-like robots to replace people.

In a public release, Nvidia said it is planning to release a software and hardware platform that utilizes generative artificial intelligence to construct transhuman robots, complete with a suite of software tools like genAI. (Related: If it were not for Nvidia, the U.S. stock market would be in the toilet where it belongs.)

During its annual developer conference, Nvidia bragged about the genAI component of the product, which will allow the company's AI-driven, human-like robots to take on heavy industry – check out what they look like below:

Jim Fan, an Nvidia research manager and lead of embodied AI at the company, explained that through something called "GR00T," Nvidia's human-like AI robots will be able to comprehend instructions given to them through language, video and demonstrations in order to perform various tasks.

"The GR00T model will enable a robot to understand multimodal instructions, such as language, video and demonstration, and perform a variety of useful tasks," Fan said.

"We are collaborating with many leading humanoid companies around the world, so that GR00T may transfer across embodiments and help the ecosystem thrive."

GR00T is a program that Fan says was "born on Nvidia's deep technology stack." There is an entire program around the technology called Project GR00T that Fan says is "a cornerstone for the 'Foundation Agent' roadmap of the newly founded GEAR Lab."

In a statement to the media, Rev Lebaredian, vice president of omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia, explained that the purpose of these AI robots is to take over human jobs, effectively making humans obsolete.

"These smarter, faster, better robots will be deployed in the world's heavy industries," Lebaredian said. "We are working with the world's entire robot and simulation ecosystem to accelerate development and adoption."

Nvidia's genAI software is powered by a computer the company calls "Jetson Thor," while the package software is called the "Isaac" platform.

Jetson Thor, we are told, will have enough horsepower loaded into it that AI robots will be able to compute and perform complex tasks while still being able to interact with other machines and people.

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