Nvidia to boost its China robotics team amid emergence of physical AI
The US chip giant says it is recruiting for more than a dozen roles as it looks to move robots from research labs to real-world deployment
The Silicon Valley firm is recruiting for more than a dozen roles across Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, according to a post on its official WeChat account on Monday. The positions span four key domains: embodied intelligence, simulation, implementation and solutions.
Nvidia said its robotics team planned to build a “leading robotics platform and ecosystem to help developers and companies create autonomous machines”, with the aim of accelerating the journey of robots from research labs into real-world deployment across various business scenarios.
Job descriptions revealed that employees would work around its technologies including the Project GR00T humanoid robot foundation model, the Cosmos physical simulation world model, and the company’s GPU-accelerated computing platforms, consisting of an all-around robotics technology development ecosystem, the company noted in the post.
Positions up for hire included engineers specialising in dexterous manipulation, whole-body control, and experts who would focus on robot learning and AI systems optimisation for humanoid robots.