NVIDIA

NVIDIA Corporation is an American multinational technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. Founded in 1993 by Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem, NVIDIA pioneered GPU-accelerated computing and has become the world's leading AI computing company. In robotics, NVIDIA offers the Isaac platform encompassing Isaac Sim (simulation), Isaac Lab (policy training), Isaac ROS (robot operating system integration), and Isaac GR00T (humanoid robot foundation model and reference platform). The company's Jetson line of edge AI modules powers robots and autonomous machines, with the latest Jetson AGX Thor providing onboard inference for humanoid robots. NVIDIA's robotics ecosystem also includes Cosmos for world model simulation, Omniverse for digital twins, and partnerships with major robot manufacturers including Unitree, Figure AI, and Boston Dynamics. On September 3, 2026, NVIDIA announced that it had agreed to acquire Hugging Face for $12,930,300,000, according to NVIDIA's official blog. NVIDIA stated that Hugging Face will remain an open platform for the entire AI ecosystem, with developers continuing to choose the models, frameworks, clouds and inference service providers they want, and that Hugging Face will continue to support open source and open-weight models from across the ecosystem as well as multi-cloud and multi-accelerator development and deployment. NVIDIA also stated that it is the largest contributor of open models and data to Hugging Face, having released more than 500 models and more than 250 open datasets on the platform.