Design and Simulation

Explore developer resources for design and simulation.

Explore Design and Simulation Tools and Technologies

The Physical AI Dataset allows for developers to pretrain and deploy models.

NVIDIA Cosmos

NVIDIA Cosmos™ is a platform comprising state-of-the-art generative world foundation models, advanced tokenizers, guardrails, and an accelerated video processing pipeline built to accelerate the development of physical AI systems such as autonomous vehicles and robots.

The Physical AI Dataset allows for developers to pretrain and deploy models.

NVIDIA Isaac

The NVIDIA Isaac™ robotics platform delivers the NVIDIA® CUDA®-accelerated libraries, application frameworks, and AI models you need to create autonomous mobile robots (AMRs), arms and manipulators, humanoids, and more.

Da Vinci Workshop showcases how the NVIDIA creative team built a complete USD film production pipeline.

NVIDIA Metropolis

Discover an advanced collection of developer workflows and tools needed to build, deploy, and scale vision AI agents and applications, from the edge to the cloud.

 Pixar’s OpenUSD kitchen set

NVIDIA Omniverse

The Omniverse platform provides developers with the building blocks—developer tools, APIs, WFMs, and microservices to bridge data silos, connect teams in real time, and create physically accurate world-scale simulations.

Intel ASWF USD scene

SimReady Assets

SimReady, built on Universal Scene Description (USD), are physically accurate 3D objects that encompass accurate physical properties, behaviors, and connected data streams to represent the real world in simulated digital worlds.

Animal Logic USD ALab

Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD)

Developed by Pixar Animation Studios, OpenUSD is an open-source framework for creating, simulating, and collaborating in 3D worlds. OpenUSD is foundational to NVIDIA Omniverse™.

Explore Design and Simulation Use Cases

A steering wheel and monitor representing autonomous vehicle simulation

Autonomous Vehicle Simulation

 A robotic arm and robotic arm depicted on a monitor representing industrial facility digital twins

Industrial Facility Digital Twins

 A shopping back representing product configurators

Product Configurators

Stacked screens with a humanoid robot representing reinforcement learning

Robot Learning

Stacked screens representing synthetic data generation

Synthetic Data Generation

A business manager uses NVIDIA Retail Shopping Advisor on the laptop

Learn About Design and Simulation Solutions

Digitalization, through the creation of digital twins, will let enterprises design and simulate their physical processes before constructing a physical replica. This process accelerates the design and review process and increases efficiency while reducing costs. When 3D simulations are connected to the physical world using Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), companies can continuously operate and optimize their digital and physical twins through real-time, AI-enabled monitoring.