NVIDIA Omniverse boosts industrial digitalisation with AI
NVIDIA has announced that several leading industrial software and service companies, including Ansys, Databricks, Dematic, Omron, SAP, Schneider Electric, and Siemens, are integrating NVIDIA's Omniverse platform to further industrial digitalisation through physical AI.
The introduction of new NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprints, connected to NVIDIA Cosmos world foundation models, provides capabilities for robot-ready environments and large-scale synthetic data generation for the development of physical AI.
Rev Lebaredian, Vice President of Omniverse and Simulation Technology at NVIDIA, stated, "Omniverse is an operating system that connects the world's physical data to the realm of physical AI. With Omniverse, global industrial software, data and professional services leaders are uniting industrial ecosystems and building new applications that will advance the next generation of AI for industries at unprecedented speed."
The new NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprints include Mega, designed for testing multi-robot fleets in industrial digital twins, now available in preview.
NVIDIA AI Blueprint for video search and summarisation, powered by the NVIDIA Metropolis platform, aids in building AI agents for facility-wide activity monitoring.
Manufacturing leaders are employing these blueprints to enhance operations with physical AI. Schaeffler and Accenture are using Mega for testing Agility Robotics Digit in material-handling automation. Hyundai Motor Group and Mercedes-Benz are leveraging it to simulate robots like Boston Dynamics Atlas and Apptronik's Apollo for optimisation of assembly lines.
In electronics manufacturing, Pegatron utilises Mega to develop AI-based video analytics for better factory operations and safety, while Foxconn simulates robotic applications in its facilities to advance the NVIDIA Blackwell platform. Brand Cheng, CEO of Fii, a subsidiary of Foxconn, commented, "Using NVIDIA Omniverse and Mega, we're testing and training humanoids to operate in our leading factories as we advance to the next wave of physical AI."
For warehouse and supply chain solutions, KION Group, Dematic, and Accenture integrate Mega for AI-powered automation advancement, and idealworks is using it to optimise robotic fleet management. Additionally, SAP ecosystems can create their virtual warehouse management environments using Omniverse.
The AI factory digital twins blueprint allows data centre engineers to simulate designs for maximum efficiency, with initial integrations by Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform and Schneider Electric with ETAP.
The Isaac GR00T Blueprint for synthetic manipulation motion generation supports robotics developers by streamlining large-scale synthetic data generation, expediting the development of humanoid robots.
Several industries face digital challenges when bridging the gap between physical and digital systems. Omniverse, based on the OpenUSD framework, aims to unify these systems, as companies like Ansys, Hexagon, Omron, and Siemens integrate its technologies to optimise manufacturing workflows.
Intrinsic, a company under Alphabet, is enabling Omniverse workflows to transition digital twin solutions to hardware deployments. Meanwhile, Databricks' integration with Omniverse is set to facilitate large-scale synthetic data generation within the industrial AI domain.
General Motors has adopted Omniverse to improve various operations in its factories, enhancing material handling, transportation, and welding precision. On the consumer end, Unilever utilises Omniverse digital twin technology to streamline marketing content creation.
To ensure ease of development and scalability, Omniverse is now available as virtual desktop images in AWS with preconfigured instances in Microsoft Azure Marketplace, and plans for availability on Oracle and Google Cloud are forthcoming.
NVIDIA, together with Disney Research and Intrinsic, also introduced the OpenUSD Asset Structure Pipeline for robotics, aiming to unify robotic workflows with a common data language.
