Nvidia Corp. today announced that its hyper-realistic real-time 3D graphics collaboration and simulation platform Omniverse is expanding with several major improvements and partnerships to accelerate industrial digitization with robotics and artificial intelligence.

Leading industrial software and service providers including Ansys Inc., SAP SE, Siemens AG and Schneider Electric SE are integrating the software into their solutions to build smarter factories, robots and data centers.

Nvidia Omniverse provides a “metaverse” simulation platform for developers, artists and engineers where they can visualize and generate 3D models for projects. These simulations act and react with real-world physics so developers can build and test anything they can imagine. This capability enables precise digital recreation of industrial assets — from automotive prototypes and aerospace components to complete manufacturing facilities — with the precision needed for meaningful engineering analysis.

“Omniverse is an operating system that connects the world’s physical data to the realm of physical AI,” said Rev Lebaredian, vice president of Omniverse and simulation technology at Nvidia.

Nvidia’s newly released Omniverse Blueprint for AI factory digital twins, or virtual replicas, expands these capabilities for gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence data center infrastructure. This specialized toolset allows engineers to design and simulate complete AI data center environments, encompassing critical systems like cooling infrastructure and electrical networks.

Using the platform, they can design data centers all the way down to the foundation, wiring, racks, pipes, and pumps, then run them through thousands of hours of accelerated simulations. This testing can reveal operational insights, identify potential issues and validate performance long before construction begins, thus significantly reducing costly real-world modifications.

It can also simulate operations for running data centers to provide control and insights for optimization and maintenance.

Schneider Electric, a leader in digital transformation for energy management, and ETAP, an industry and technology leader in power system design and operation, today unveiled a digital twin solution using the new blueprint. By creating a virtual replica of AI data centers that bring together inputs for mechanical, thermal, networking and electrical to simulate how the AI factory operates, it can predict failures, provide enhanced insights for efficiency and deliver greater opportunities for sustainability, the companies said.

“This collaboration represents more than just a technological solution,” said ETAP Chief ExecutiveTanuj Khandelwal. “We’re fundamentally reimagining how data centers can be designed, managed and optimized in the AI era.”

Nvidia also announced Mega, an Omniverse blueprint for testing multi-robot fleets at scale in industrial digital twins. For automotive manufacturing, Scheffler and Accenture are adopting Mega to test and simulate fleets of Agility Robotics Inc.’s bipedal robot Digit for material handling and Hyundai Motor Group is using it to simulate Boston Dynamics Atlas robots in its assembly lines. For electronics, Hon Hai Technology Group, better known as Foxconn, is using Mega to simulate industrial manipulators, humanoid and mobile robots at scale in its manufacturing campuses.

For physical AI, the integration of artificial intelligence into physical systems such as robots and machines, allowing them to perceive understand and interact with the real world, Intrinsic, an Alphabet Inc. company, partnered with Nvidia to use Omniverse and robotics models to transition from digital twins to hardware. Databricks Inc., a global data analytics and AI company, is integrating Omniverse into its platform to enable the large-scale production of synthetic data for AI-powered robotics.

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