MUNICH – European industries are increasingly adopting AI and robotics to combat labor shortages, enhance productivity, and foster sustainable economic growth. This trend is evident from Germany’s automotive sector to manufacturing hubs in France and Italy.
Robotics firms are creating humanoid robots and collaborative systems that integrate AI into manufacturing. With a $200 billion investment initiative and support from the European Commission, Europe aims to lead in industrial automation powered by AI.
Automatic, a European conference on robotics, machine vision, and smart manufacturing, is currently underway in Munich, germany.
NVIDIA and its partners are showcasing next-generation robots, automation, and AI technologies to advance smart manufacturing and logistics in Europe.
NVIDIA Technologies Drive Robotics Growth
Europe’s first industrial AI cloud, announced at NVIDIA GTC Paris at VivaTech, is central to advancing robotics. This AI factory, based in Germany and featuring 10,000 NVIDIA GPUs, offers European manufacturers secure AI infrastructure for industrial workloads, supporting applications from design to factory digital twins and robotics.
To accelerate humanoid development, NVIDIA released NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N1.5, an open foundation model for humanoid robot reasoning and skills. This update improves the model’s adaptability and performance in material handling and manufacturing.
NVIDIA has also released the Isaac GR00T-dreams blueprint to help post-train GR00T N1.5. this reference workflow generates synthetic trajectory data from human demonstrations, enabling robots to adapt to new environments with minimal data.
Early developer previews of NVIDIA Isaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2, open-source robot simulation and learning frameworks optimized for NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 workstations, are available on GitHub.
Robotics Leaders Use NVIDIA Simulation Technology
Robotics developers are integrating NVIDIA’s three computers to train, simulate, and deploy robots.
NEURA Robotics,a German robotics company,introduced the third generation of its humanoid,4NE1,designed to assist humans in various environments through cognitive capabilities and interaction. 4NE1 is powered by GR00T N1 and was trained in Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab.
NEURA Robotics is also presenting Neuraverse, a digital twin ecosystem for robot training, skills, and applications, compatible with NVIDIA Omniverse technologies.
Delta Electronics, a leader in power management and green solutions, is launching two collaborative robots: D-Bot Mar and D-bot 2 in 1, both trained using Omniverse and Isaac Sim. These cobots are designed to transform intralogistics and optimize production.
Hiking bots, the creator of the Wandelbots NOVA software platform, is partnering with SoftServe to scale simulation-first automation using NVIDIA Isaac Sim, enabling virtual validation and real-world deployment.
Gather, a pioneer in autonomous mobile robotics, is integrating its DriveMod technology into Isaac Sim for virtual testing of autonomous operation. DriveMod is deployed on vehicles such as the Motrec MT-160 Tugger and The world of forklift, delivering automation to material handling.
Doosan Robotics will showcase its “sim to real” solution, using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and cuRobo, to transfer tasks from simulation to real robots across manufacturing and service industries.
Franka Robotics has integrated Isaac GR00T N1.5 into a dual-arm Franka Research 3 (FR3) robot for robotic control. The integration of GR00T N1.5 allows the system to interpret visual input,understand task context,and perform complex manipulation without task-specific programming.
Hexagon, a leader in measurement technologies, launched its new humanoid, AEON. Powered by NVIDIA’s three-computer solution, AEON is designed for industrial applications, from manipulation and asset inspection to reality capture and operator support.
Intrinsic is integrating Intrinsic Flowstate with Omniverse and OpenUSD for visualization and digital twins in industrial use cases. the company is also using NVIDIA foundation models to enhance robot capabilities through AI and simulation.
Stuff is showcasing its grasping kit powered by the Nvidia Jetson Agx Music module. The kit detects objects and calculates grasping points. Schunk is also demonstrating simulation-to-reality transfer using IGS Virtuous software, built on Omniverse technologies, to control a real robot through simulation.
Worldwide Robots is showcasing UR15, its fastest cobot, powered by the UR AI Accelerator and running on Jetson AGX Orin using CUDA-accelerated Isaac libraries.
Vention launched its Machine Motion AI, built on CUDA-accelerated Isaac libraries and powered by Jetson. Vention is also expanding its robotic offerings by adding the FR3 robot from Franka Robotics to its ecosystem.
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