ABB Robotics is integrating Nvidia Omniverse libraries into ABB Robotics’ RobotStudio to assist producers deploy bodily AI in actual world robotics purposes.
Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics, mentioned: “Right this moment, utilizing Nvidia accelerated computing and simulation applied sciences, now we have eliminated the final limitations to creating industrial and bodily AI a actuality at a world scale by closing the sim-to-real hole.
“For greater than 50 years, ABB Robotics has led the evolution of clever industrial automation, from pioneering the primary technology of totally electrical industrial robots to advancing digital twin simulation by means of RobotStudio and shaping a brand new space of autonomous and versatile cell robots. Right this moment’s announcement with Nvidia brings bodily AI to trade at scale.”
The collaboration focuses on combining ABB Robotics’ software program programming, design and simulation suite, RobotStudio, with the bodily correct simulation energy of Nvidia Omniverse libraries to shut know-how’s long-standing “sim-to-real” hole.
Builders can simulate robots in digital twins and generate artificial knowledge to coach their bodily AI fashions, enabling companies of every type and sizes to deploy AI-driven robotics for varied industrial workflows.
Referred to as RobotStudio HyperReality, the ensuing bodily correct simulations and basis fashions are endlessly optimized with real-world knowledge suggestions repeatedly bettering the system. These fashions can be utilized to coach any variety of ABB robots, wherever on this planet, with the reliability and accuracy demanded by trade.
Deepu Talla, vp of robotics and edge AI at Nvidia, says: “The commercial sector wants bodily correct simulation to bridge the hole between digital coaching and the real-world deployment of AI-driven robotics at scale.
“Integrating Nvidia Omniverse libraries into RobotStudio brings superior simulation and accelerated computing to ABB Robotics’ distinctive digital controller know-how, accelerating how producers of all sizes deliver advanced merchandise to market.”
Closing the ‘sim-to-real’ hole
The long-standing deficit between simulation accuracy and real-world lighting, supplies and environments is called the ‘sim-to-real’ hole. For many years, this hole has restricted the flexibility of producers to design and develop superior manufacturing processes within the digital world.
By integrating Nvidia Omniverse libraries into RobotStudio, ABB Robotics will ship unprecedented robotics simulation and artificial knowledge technology capabilities that can enable clever robots to bridge this hole with as much as 99 p.c accuracy.
ABB is the one robotic producer with a digital controller working the identical firmware because the {hardware}, making certain close to‑good correlation between simulation and actual‑world efficiency.
Mixed with ABB Robotics’ Absolute Accuracy know-how, which reduces positioning errors from 8–15 mm to round 0.5 mm, ABB delivers unmatched precision in each digital and bodily environments, making it suited to high-precision industrial-grade purposes.
This innovation permits producers to design, check, and optimize manufacturing strains just about, slicing setup and commissioning occasions by as much as 80 p.c, decreasing prices by as much as 40 p.c by eliminating the necessity for bodily prototypes, and accelerating time-to-market for advanced merchandise resembling shopper electronics by 50 p.c.
ABB Robotics can be assessing the potential to combine the Nvidia Jetson edge computing platform into its Omnicore controller to realize real-time AI inference on the edge for its in depth robotic portfolio.
Right this moment’s announcement builds upon ABB Robotics’ long-standing work with Nvidia, together with the earlier integration of Nvidia Jetson into ABB Robotics’ VSLAM autonomous cell robots in addition to the event of gigawatt-scale AI knowledge facilities.
Actual-world purposes, in the present day
RobotStudio HyperReality will serve industrial purchasers at any scale, throughout a breadth of industries and purposes, with choose prospects already testing its capabilities forward of a full launch to ABB Robotics’ 60,000 RobotStudio prospects worldwide within the second half of 2026.
Foxconn, the world’s largest electronics contract producer, is piloting the primary joint use case in shopper electronics meeting.
Automating the meeting of a tiny piece in shopper electronics is difficult, as a number of machine variants require totally different manufacturing strategies and the fragile metallic construction requires exact pick-and-place and meeting management, in addition to fine-tuned setup, usually demanding further debugging time and engineering assets.
Utilizing RobotStudio HyperReality, Foxconn’s meeting robots are skilled just about, utilizing artificial knowledge to good a number of real-world manufacturing processes in varied eventualities, earlier than shifting them to the manufacturing line with 99 p.c accuracy.
By optimizing manufacturing strains just about, Foxconn will scale back set-up occasions and prices by eliminating bodily coaching and checks, and speed up time-to-market for shopper electronics.
Dr. Zhe Shi, chief digital officer of Foxconn, mentioned: “Precision is the whole lot in shopper electronics manufacturing and till now, this stage of accuracy and constancy simply wasn’t attainable in simulation and digital twins.
“We’re extremely excited by the potential of ABB Robotics and Nvidia’s collaboration, which permits parallel engineering for higher designs, sooner manufacturing ramp‑up and larger product evolution by means of superior AI inference and understanding.”
WORKR, a California primarily based robotic workforce firm that delivers robotic manufacturing options to trade, is extending the attain of this know-how to small and medium producers throughout the US.
At Nvidia GTC 2026 (March 16-19, San Jose, CA), WORKR will show AI- powered robotic techniques constructed on ABB know-how, skilled with artificial knowledge utilizing Nvidia Omniverse libraries, and deployed with out operators needing to know any programming.
By combining ABB’s industrial grade robotics with its proprietary WorkrCore AI platform, the corporate helps producers tackle important labor shortages with its robotic workforce that may be taught new duties in minutes and be operated by anybody.
Ken Macken, CEO and founding father of WORKR, mentioned: “This collaboration is about making industrial AI deployable in the present day. Along with ABB and Nvidia, we’re proving that superior automation can work for producers of any dimension.”
