NVIDIA Cosmos represents the biggest breakthrough in robotics and physical AI development we’ve seen this decade. This revolutionary platform solves the $50 billion challenge facing every company building autonomous vehicles, robots, and smart city systems: how do you train AI without access to millions of real-world scenarios?
The answer changes everything about how we develop physical AI systems. Instead of spending years collecting real-world data, developers can now generate infinite synthetic worlds that teach robots everything from basic navigation to complex manufacturing tasks.
New NVIDIA Omniverse Libraries Advance Applications for World Composition
New NVIDIA Omniverse software development kits (SDKs) and libraries are now available for building and deploying industrial AI and robotics simulation applications.
- New Omniverse SDKs introduce data interoperability between MuJoCo (MJCF) and Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), enabling over 250,000 MJCF robot learning developers to seamlessly simulate robots across platforms.
- New Omniverse NuRec libraries and AI models introduce Omniverse RTX ray-traced 3D Gaussian splatting, a rendering technique that lets developers capture, reconstruct, and simulate the real world in 3D using sensor data.
- NVIDIA Isaac Sim™ 5.0 and NVIDIA Isaac Lab 2.2 open-source robot simulation and learning frameworks are now available on GitHub. Isaac Sim now includes NuRec neural rendering and new OpenUSD-based robot and sensor schemas that help robot developers close the simulation-to-reality gap.
Omniverse NuRec rendering is now integrated in CARLA, a leading open-source simulator used by over 150,000 developers. Autonomous vehicle (AV) toolchain leader Foretellix is integrating NuRec, NVIDIA Omniverse Sensor RTX™, and Cosmos Transfer to enhance its scalable synthetic data generation with physically accurate scenarios. Voxel51’s data engine for visual and multimodal AI, FiftyOne, supports NuRec to ease data preparation for reconstructions. FiftyOne is used by customers such as Ford and Porsche.
Boston Dynamics, Figure AI, Hexagon, RAI Institute, Lightwheel, and Skild AI are adopting Omniverse libraries, Isaac Sim, and Isaac Lab to accelerate their AI robotics development, while Amazon Devices & Services is using them to power a new manufacturing solution.
Cosmos Advances World Generation for Robotics
Cosmos WFMs, downloaded over 2 million times, let developers generate diverse data for training robots at scale using text, image and video prompts.
New models announced at SIGGRAPH deliver major advances in synthetic data generation speed, accuracy, language support and control:
- Cosmos Transfer-2, coming soon, simplifies prompting and accelerates photorealistic synthetic data generation from ground-truth 3D simulation scenes or spatial control inputs like depth, segmentation, edges, and high-definition maps.
- A distilled version of Cosmos Transfer reduces the 70-step distillation process to one so developers can run the model on NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers at unprecedented speed.
Lightwheel, Moon Surgica,l and Skild AI are using Cosmos Transfer to accelerate physical AI training by simulating diverse conditions at scale.
Cosmos Reason Breaks Through World Understanding
Cosmos Reason delivers unprecedented spatial reasoning AI capabilities that help robots truly understand their environment. This isn’t simple object recognition – it’s comprehensive world understanding that enables multi-step reasoning in robotics.
Revolutionary Vision Language Model Integration
The Vision Language Model (VLM) component processes visual information alongside natural language commands. Robots can now understand complex instructions like “move the red box to the shelf near the window” without pre-programmed pathways.
Spatial Control Inputs include depth perception, segmentation mapping, and HD maps that create detailed environmental understanding. This technology powers autonomous vehicles (AV) toolchain applications for companies like XPENG and Uber.
Real-World Deployment Success
Traffic monitoring automation systems using Cosmos Reason now operate in major cities worldwide. VAST Data’s implementation processes thousands of traffic patterns simultaneously, predicting potential accidents 15 minutes before they occur.
The system’s robot planning and reasoning capabilities extend beyond simple navigation. Industrial robots now perform complex assembly tasks, adapting in real-time to variations in materials and environmental conditions.
Performance Metrics That Matter
- Accident prediction accuracy: 94.7% success rate
- Real-time processing speed: Under 50ms response time
- Multi-object tracking: Up to 1,000 simultaneous objects
New NVIDIA AI Infrastructure Powers Robotics Workloads Anywhere
The hardware behind NVIDIA Cosmos sets new standards for AI infrastructure for robotics. NVIDIA RTX PRO Servers deliver the computational power needed for the most demanding robotics simulation workloads.
Blackwell Architecture Advantages
Full Robot Developing Lifecycles on one Architecture with NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell Servers. This integration removes traditional bottlenecks between simulation, training, and deployment phases.
Now, NVIDIA DGX Cloud opens this up on a global scale so that development teams across the world can leverage this same powerful infrastructure. Enterprises see 40% in costs with cloud-based development over on-premises solutions.
Energy Efficiency and Sustainability
New infrastructure designed for green computing to ensure an ecologically sustainable AI future, 3x the performance, 60% less power consumption than previous generation systems.
| Infrastructure Component | Performance Gain | Energy Reduction |
|---|---|---|
| RTX PRO Blackwell | 300% faster processing | 60% less power |
| DGX Cloud Platform | Unlimited scaling | 45% carbon footprint reduction |
| Edge Computing Units | Real-time inference | 70% power efficiency |
Accelerating the Developer Ecosystem
It is deployed in the Box Turbo PC VR. The NVIDIA Cosmos lives on through open source and dev support. This first wave of Cosmos Physical AI Models is free for anyone to use and easy to deploy in any field.
Developer Tools and Resources
Advanced tokenizers streamline a process that used to take weeks – data curation and annotation. Built-in guardrails ensure AI is developed responsibly, yet allow for custom applications.
NVIDIA Isaac Lab comes up with multiple environments developed out of the box to conduct reinforcement learning experiments. MuJoCo (MJCF) physics simulations: Integrated directly in the platform for prototyping ideas quickly by developers.
Partnership Program Impact
Now, some 50-plus global physical AI leaders join forces in the NVIDIA Cosmos ecosystem. These include partnerships for autonomous delivery platforms, visual inspection systems, and industrial automation.
Companies hoping to avoid the high costs of real-world data retrieval are drawn in by photorealistic synthetic data generation capabilities. The other part of the story is that you generate training data that looks like camera footage, which means dramatically less realistic.
Training and Certification Programs
NVIDIA provides an array of certification programs for developers who are using foundation models from around the world. These range from introductory courses on how to utilize Omniverse Sensor RTX, all the way up to next-gen AI agents for use in the real world.
Financial Performance and Market Position
NVIDIA’s quarterly revenue of $6.09 billion highlights its AI computing muscle. Data Center AI Chip Market Share Holder — The company hasan 80% market share in data center AI chips, and NVIDIA Cosmos positions it for continued growth.
Strategic Vision for Physical AI
NVIDIA’s road map is for the capabilities of NVIDIA Cosmos to reach out into every corner of physical world interaction. Powered by the new IgnatumNet engine, it generated a physical and holographic representation of Neptune City, starting 20 years before Hayabusa arrived to prevent its development even in Earth’s future.
The company’s research and development investment of $7.3 billion annually ensures continued innovation in world foundation models and related technologies.
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Frequently Asked Questions
NVIDIA Cosmos combines world generation, reasoning capabilities, and real-world deployment in a single platform. Unlike traditional simulators like CARLA Simulator, Cosmos creates entirely new environments from text descriptions and handles complex multi-step reasoning tasks.
NVIDIA offers NVIDIA Cosmos through multiple pricing tiers. NVIDIA DGX Cloud starts at $3 per GPU hour, while enterprise licenses for RTX PRO Servers range from $50,000 to $200,000, depending on configuration and support requirements.
Yes, NVIDIA Cosmos supports OpenUSD standards and integrates with popular frameworks, including NVIDIA Isaac Sim, ROS, and custom robotics platforms. The system's API allows seamless integration with existing development workflows.
Autonomous vehicles, manufacturing, logistics, and smart city applications see the biggest benefits. Any industry requiring synthetic data for autonomous vehicles or complex robotics simulation scenarios gains significant advantages from the platform.
The platform includes comprehensive guardrails for ethical AI development. Data curation and annotation tools prevent bias, while built-in safety protocols ensure responsible deployment of AI agents for physical world applications.
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