CES 2026: Caterpillar and NVIDIA Push Physical AI Into Heavy Industry
Caterpillar and NVIDIA deepened their partnership at CES 2026, outlining how Physical AI will transform construction, mining, manufacturing, and industrial supply chains.
NVIDIA AI Factory
NVIDIA AI Factory refers to an end-to-end approach for building, deploying, and operating AI systems at scale using NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platforms. The concept combines high-performance GPUs, networking, software frameworks, and AI tools to support the full lifecycle of artificial intelligence, from data processing and model training to inference and real-time deployment. This topic covers how AI factories are used in enterprises, data centers, and industrial environments to power generative AI, robotics, digital twins, and large-scale automation. It also examines the shift toward centralized and edge-based AI infrastructure designed for continuous model improvement and production workloads. As demand for compute-intensive AI grows, the AI Factory model reflects how organizations structure AI as core industrial infrastructure rather than isolated projects.