Cosmos

Aug 25, 2025

Introducing NVIDIA Jetson Thor, the Ultimate Platform for Physical AI

Robotics is undergoing a revolution, moving beyond the era of specialist machines to generalist robotics. This shift moves away from single-purpose,...
14 MIN READ
Aug 22, 2025

NVIDIA Hardware Innovations and Open Source Contributions Are Shaping AI

Open source AI models such as Cosmos, DeepSeek, Gemma, GPT-OSS, Llama, Nemotron, Phi, Qwen, and many more are the foundation of AI innovation. These models are...
8 MIN READ
Aug 11, 2025

Announcing General Availability for NVIDIA Isaac Sim 5.0 and NVIDIA Isaac Lab 2.2

At SIGGRAPH 2025, NVIDIA released general access for NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Isaac Lab reference robotics simulation and learning frameworks. Now available...
7 MIN READ
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Aug 11, 2025

Developers Build Fast and Reliable Robot Simulations with NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries

At SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA announced updates to the NVIDIA Omniverse libraries and Cosmos world foundation models (WFMs). Powered by OpenUSD, developers can access new...
6 MIN READ
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Aug 11, 2025

Maximize Robotics Performance by Post-Training NVIDIA Cosmos Reason

First unveiled at NVIDIA GTC 2025, NVIDIA Cosmos Reason is an open and fully customizable reasoning vision language model (VLM) for physical AI and robotics....
5 MIN READ
Aug 11, 2025

How to Instantly Render Real-World Scenes in Interactive Simulation

Turning real-world environments into interactive simulation no longer requires days or weeks of work. With NVIDIA Omniverse NuRec and 3DGUT (3D Gaussian with...
7 MIN READ
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Aug 08, 2025

R²D²: Boost Robot Training with World Foundation Models and Workflows from NVIDIA Research

As physical AI systems advance, the demand for richly labeled datasets is accelerating beyond what we can manually capture in the real world. World foundation...
10 MIN READ
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Jul 16, 2025

R²D²: Training Generalist Robots with NVIDIA Research Workflows and World Foundation Models

A major challenge in robotics is training robots to perform new tasks without the massive effort of collecting and labeling datasets for every new task and...
11 MIN READ
Jun 16, 2025

Enhance Robot Learning with Synthetic Trajectory Data Generated by World Foundation Models

Generalist robotics have arrived, powered by advances in mechatronics and robot AI foundation models. But a key bottleneck remains: robots need vast training...
8 MIN READ
Jun 11, 2025

Develop Custom Physical AI Foundation Models with NVIDIA Cosmos Predict-2

Building smarter robots and autonomous vehicles (AVs) starts with physical AI models that understand real-world dynamics. These models serve two critical roles:...
8 MIN READ
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Jun 11, 2025

Simplify End-to-End Autonomous Vehicle Development with New NVIDIA Cosmos World Foundation Models

The shift to end-to-end planning models for powering autonomous vehicles (AVs) is increasing the demand for high-quality, physically-based sensor data. These...
7 MIN READ
Jun 11, 2025

Accelerating AV Simulation with Neural Reconstruction and World Foundation Models

Autonomous vehicle (AV) stacks are evolving from a hierarchy of discrete building blocks to end-to-end architectures built on foundation models. This transition...
7 MIN READ
May 30, 2025

How Robot Brains Dream and Explore Unseen Worlds

NVIDIA Isaac GR00T-Dreams enables developers to generate large-scale synthetic trajectory data from minimal human demonstrations, enabling robots to quickly...
1 MIN READ
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May 18, 2025

Advanced Sensor Physics, Customization, and Model Benchmarking Coming to NVIDIA Isaac Sim and NVIDIA Isaac Lab

At COMPUTEX 2025, NVIDIA announced new updates to its robotics simulation reference application NVIDIA Isaac Sim, and robot learning framework, NVIDIA Isaac...
10 MIN READ
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May 18, 2025

Curating Synthetic Datasets to Train Physical AI Models with NVIDIA Cosmos Reason

How can an AI system understand the difference between a plausible accident and a physically impossible event? Or plan a multi-step interaction across humans,...
5 MIN READ
Mar 27, 2025

R²D²: Advancing Robot Mobility and Whole-Body Control with Novel Workflows and AI Foundation Models from NVIDIA Research

Welcome to the first edition of the NVIDIA Robotics Research and Development Digest (R2D2). This technical blog series will give developers and researchers...
10 MIN READ