Hemal Shah

Hemal Shah leads Robotics Platform Engineering at NVIDIA, the team behind Isaac ROS, Isaac for Manipulation, and other technologies. He founded Isaac ROS in 2021 to bring NVIDIA acceleration to robotics through the ROS 2 ecosystem. His current focus is on building the platform for deploying impactful physical AI on robots.
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Posts by Hemal Shah

Robotics Sep 22, 2026

Accelerating a ROS 2 Node with an AI Agent and NVIDIA Isaac ROS

GPU acceleration can speed up compute-intensive robotics workloads, but a fast CUDA kernel alone does not guarantee a fast ROS 2 graph. As messages move between... 12 MIN READ