NVIDIA GTC 2026: Physical AI Models and Robot Foundation Platform

NVIDIA unveiled frontier models for physical AI at GTC 2026 in San Jose, including Cosmos 3, Isaac GR00T N1.7 (now available with commercial licensing for production robot deployments), and a preview of GR00T N2, which helps robots succeed at new tasks more than twice as often as leading alternatives. Partners including ABB, FANUC, Figure AI, Universal Robots, and surgical robotics firm PeritasAI announced deployments built on NVIDIA's platform. The open source physics engine Newton 1.0 was released for general availability.