Nvidia Wants to Be the Android of Generalist Robotics

Nvidia Wants to Be the Android of Generalist Robotics

Nvidia Wants to Be the Android of Robotics At CES 2026, Nvidia made a bold declaration: it wants to become the Android of generalist robotics. Just as Android standardized smartphone software and hardware ecosystems two decades ago, Nvidia is now pushing to unify the fragmented robotics industry under its own open, full-stack platform. With new robot foundation models, simulation tools, and edge hardware, the company is betting that the future of physical AI lies not in isolated, single-purpose machines—but in adaptable, intelligent systems that learn, reason, and act across real-world environments. Credit: CES A Full-Stack Play for Physical AI Nvidia’s strategy centers on an integrated ecosystem it calls “physical AI”—a term describing AI systems that operate in and interact with the physical world. Unlike traditional robots programmed for narrow tasks, these new systems leverage vision-language models and simulation to generalize across diverse scenarios. At the heart of this vision is …