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Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry and NVIDIA have announced the world’s first national AI infrastructure dedicated to physical AI, built around an NVIDIA Vera Rubin AI factory with 27,500 Rubin GPUs and 140 megawatts of capacity, targeting Japan’s goal of capturing 30% of the global AI robotics market by 2040.
Walden Robotics has launched from stealth with $300 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, co-led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, with robots already performing real production work at a Toyota North American plant since February 2026, powered by Large Behavior Models developed at Toyota Research Institute.
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs is working with ITRI and six industry partners to develop indigenous four-legged robot technology, trained on NVIDIA’s Taipei-1 supercomputer across 4,000 virtual robots, targeting the global quadruped market projected to grow from under $1 billion to over $4 billion by 2035.
NVIDIA and Hugging Face have integrated Isaac GR00T 1.7 and Isaac Teleop into LeRobot, the open-source robotics library, giving developers a standardized end-to-end pipeline for robot foundation model training, data collection, and deployment, with Cosmos 3 integration planned next.
NVIDIA has announced Halos for Robotics, the industry’s first full-stack safety architecture for physical AI systems, drawing on 18,600 engineering years of autonomous vehicle safety development, with Agility Robotics integrating it into Digit as the first commercial humanoid deployment.
Nebius has launched the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month accelerator providing UK and European robotics startups with access to NVIDIA’s physical AI software stack and Nebius cloud compute, with the first cohort expected to begin in September 2026.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang declared humanoid robots “very very close” to industrial deployment as he and Hyundai Executive Chair Chung Euisun detailed plans to expand their physical AI and robotics partnership, with Huang also committing to join Hyundai’s $5.9 billion South Korean AI Valley initiative.
LG Group and NVIDIA have signed a broad strategic partnership covering physical AI and robotics, AI data center infrastructure, and autonomous vehicle systems, with Jensen Huang and LG Chairman Kwang Mo Koo meeting in Seoul to formalize the expanded cooperation.
Major Silicon Valley AI companies including Nvidia, OpenAI, Meta, and Tesla are accelerating investment in humanoid robotics as the industry pushes embodied AI as the next major growth area. Recent moves include Nvidia’s standardized robot blueprint and OpenAI’s dedicated robotics division.
NVIDIA has announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot, an open hardware and software platform combining a Unitree H2 Plus chassis, Sharpa dexterous hands, and Jetson Thor onboard compute, targeting frontier humanoid robotics research at institutions including Stanford, ETH Zurich, and UC San Diego.
BMW is deploying two Hexagon Robotics Aeon humanoid robots at its Leipzig factory this summer for battery assembly and parts feeding tasks, marking the first use of humanoid robots in European automotive manufacturing and extending a program that has already built 30,000 cars in the U.S. with Figure robots.
Elon Musk predicted at Forbes’ Innovator 250 Celebration that between 100 million and one billion humanoid robots will arrive within five years and that digital intelligence will surpass all human brainpower by 2031, as Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang separately forecast AI driving global GDP to $500 trillion.
Nvidia and Doosan Robotics have announced plans to connect Doosan’s agentic robot operating system with Nvidia’s simulation and training infrastructure, targeting an intelligent robot solution launch in 2027 and an industrial humanoid by 2028.
LG Electronics has confirmed it is in discussions with Nvidia on potential cooperation spanning robotics, AI data center infrastructure, and mobility technologies, as both companies deepen their positions in physical AI.
NVIDIA and more than a dozen industrial partners used Hannover Messe 2026 to demonstrate AI-driven manufacturing systems already operating in live production environments, from humanoid robots in electronics factories to vision AI agents on automotive assembly lines.