Physical AI

NVIDIA Omniverse

Libraries and microservices for developing industrial digital twins and physical AI simulation applications.

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Overview

Overview
Technology
Use Cases
Starting Options
Ecosystem
Success Stories
Resources
Next Steps
FAQs

Start Developing

Overview

What is NVIDIA Omniverse?

NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a collection of libraries and microservices for developing physical AI applications such as industrial digital twins and robotics simulation.

Leveraging NVIDIA’s deep expertise in accelerated computing and AI, Omniverse libraries enable software makers to integrate pre-built functionality into their solutions.

NVIDIA and Industrial Software Giants Bring Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing Into the AI Era

Cadence, Dassault Systèmes, PTC, Siemens, and Synopsys are bringing NVIDIA-accelerated industrial software and tools to major cloud providers and original equipment manufacturers.

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NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World

NVIDIA is partnering with the global robotics ecosystem — including leading robot brain developers, industrial robot giants and humanoid pioneers — to power production-scale physical AI.

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Technology

Omniverse Capabilities

NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, microservices, and APIs are built on top of OpenUSD to simplify the adoption of NVIDIA’s physical AI simulation technologies across data interoperability, physics, and rendering.

OpenUSD

Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD) enables seamless data interoperability and SimReady (simulation-ready) digital twins.

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RTX

Sensor simulation and physically-based, real-time rendering libraries built on NVIDIA RTX™ for generating datasets at scale.

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Physics

GPU-accelerated physics library built on NVIDIA PhysX® delivers highly-performant, USD-native physics for complex simulation, robotics, and industrial digital twins.

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Runtime

Optimized data architecture and runtime for faster development, performance, and collaboration.

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Use Cases

How Omniverse Libraries Are Being Used

See how developers across industries are integrating Omniverse libraries into their solutions.

Industrial Facility Digital Twins
Synthetic Data Generation
Robot
Simulation
Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
Robot
Learning

Industrial Facility Digital Twins

Leverage Omniverse libraries to develop advanced virtual factory solutions and bring data interoperability, physically based visualization, generative AI, and real-time collaboration to your software.

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Develop virtual factory solutions with OpenUSD

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Synthetic Data Generation

Developers can save significant training time and reduce costs by using synthetic data alongside real-world data to create carefully labeled datasets for training multimodal physical AI models. And now, with NVIDIA Cosmos™, developers can generate even larger datasets with 3D-to-real workflows.

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Use synthetic data to save time and money

Robot Simulation

Physical AI-powered robots and robot fleets must autonomously sense, plan, and execute complex tasks in the physical world. These include safely and efficiently transporting and manipulating objects in dynamic, unpredictable environments.

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Train robots in virtual environments with OpenUSD

Autonomous Vehicle Simulation

With NVIDIA Cosmos, conditioned on Omniverse physics libraries, simulation developers can enhance their AV simulation workflows with high-fidelity, diverse sensor data and realistic behavior to train perception models and validate the AV software stack.

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Robot Learning

Preprogrammed robots struggle with unexpected changes, while AI-driven robots use simulation-based learning to adapt to dynamic environments. This enables them to refine capabilities such as navigation and manipulation, improving performance in a wide range of scenarios.

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Agility, Apptronik, Fourier Intelligence, Unitree

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Starting Options

Ways to Get Started With NVIDIA Omniverse

Libraries

Integrate Omniverse libraries into physical AI applications.

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Blueprints

Jump-start building physical AI solutions with NVIDIA Blueprints.

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Success Stories

Transforming Every Industry With NVIDIA Omniverse

Skild AI: Pioneering Omni-Bodied Intelligence Through Simulation

Customer: Skild AI
Products: NVIDIA Isaac, NVIDIA Omniverse

Manufacturing

Lightwheel Accelerates Physical AI Development With NVIDIA Simulation and Foundation Models

Customer: AgiBot, BYD, ByteDance, Figure, Fourier, Galbot, Geely, Google Deepmind, Zordi
Products: NVIDIA Isaac, NVIDIA Omniverse

Manufacturing

Siemens Accelerates Product Development and Innovation With Industrial AI

Customer: BMW Group, HD Hyundai, Maserati
Products: NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA Metropolis, NVIDIA AI Blueprint for Video Search and Summarization, NeMo Retriever, NIM

Ecosystem

Industry Leaders Adopt Omniverse

Resources

The Latest From Omniverse

Blogs
Sessions
Training
Videos

Omniverse News

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April 28, 2026

Into the Omniverse: Manufacturing’s Simulation-First Era Has Arrived

Manufacturing’s traditional design-build-test cycle rested on a single assumption: Real-world testing was the only reliable test environment.

April 22, 2026

NVIDIA and Google Cloud Collaborate to Advance Agentic and Physical AI

NVIDIA and Google Cloud have collaborated for more than a decade, co‑engineering a full‑stack AI platform that spans every technology layer — from performance‑optimized libraries and frameworks to enterprise‑grade cloud services. This foundation enables developers, startups and enterprises to push agentic and physical AI out of the lab and into production — from agents that […]

April 20, 2026

Autonomous AI at Scale: Adobe Agents Unlock Breakthrough Creative Intelligence With NVIDIA and WPP

AI agents are transforming how work gets done across all industries, accelerating everything from content creation to decision-making. NVIDIA’s expanded strategic collaborations with Adobe and WPP are bringing agentic AI to the center of enterprise marketing operations across creative production and customer experience orchestration. As demand for personalized customer experiences surges, brands require intelligent systems […]

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OpenUSD Learning Path

Gain foundational knowledge, explore essential concepts, and harness the full potential of USD today with our Learn OpenUSD curriculum for developers and 3D practitioners.

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Digital Twin Learning Path

Learn the basics of building intelligent factories, warehouses, and industrial facilities with 3D integration, simulation, and real-time visualization for the era of physical AI.

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Robotics Learning Path

Explore core robotics concepts such as simulation, ROS, and AI training, and how they enable robots to navigate, adapt, and perform tasks in real-world environments.

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Frequently Asked Questions

NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a collection of libraries and microservices for developing physical AI applications such as industrial digital twins and robotics simulation. Leveraging NVIDIA’s deep expertise in accelerated computing and AI, Omniverse libraries enable software makers to integrate pre-built functionality into their solutions. These libraries include developer tools, GPU-accelerated libraries, and technologies packaged as microservices and cloud APIs for streamlined development and deployment.

There are two ways to start developing with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries:

Leverage NVIDIA Omniverse libraries within your physical AI application for direct integration of prebuilt functionality, including sensor simulation, physically based real-time rendering, and advanced physics.
Jump-start building physical AI solutions with NVIDIA Blueprints, comprehensive reference projects and workflows that use NVIDIA AI and Omniverse technologies to help developers build and customize end-to-end applications such as industrial digital twins and robotics simulations.

Learn more about developing with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries here.

NVIDIA Omniverse Launcher (Deprecated)

The Omniverse Launcher was deprecated on October 1, 2025 to better align with developers and their expected development workflows.

Many of the Omniverse applications, tools, and assets that used to live in Launcher will transition to the following locations:

Kit, Apps, Samples, Tools, and Templates are available on GitHub and the NGC Catalog.
Connectors are available in the NGC Catalog.
Extensions are available directly from the associated vendor's web pages or NVIDIA OpenUSD Ecosystem Catalog.
Content and Assets are available on NVIDIA Documentation Hub (OmniDocs).

Visit Omniverse legacy tools and NVIDIA developer forums for more details.

Nucleus Workstation
Nucleus Workstation on Launcher was deprecated on October 1, 2025. Developers wishing to continue using Nucleus can obtain the Enterprise Nucleus Server software from the NGC Catalog (login required). The Enterprise Nucleus Server is free for testing and development, but an enterprise license is required for production use and includes enterprise support. See Omniverse legacy tools for more details.

NVIDIA Cosmos is a world model (WFM) development platform. At its core are Cosmos WFMs that generate world states as videos using multimodal input.

Developers can input Omniverse simulations as instructional videos to the Cosmos Transfer WFM model to generate controllable, photorealistic synthetic data.

Together, Omniverse provides the simulation environment before and after training, while Cosmos photoreal controllable synthetic data to train physical AI models.

NVIDIA Omniverse

What is NVIDIA Omniverse?

NVIDIA and Industrial Software Giants Bring Design, Engineering, and Manufacturing Into the AI Era

NVIDIA and Global Robotics Leaders Take Physical AI to the Real World

Omniverse Capabilities

OpenUSD

RTX

Physics

Runtime

How Omniverse Libraries Are Being Used

Industrial Facility Digital Twins

Ways to Get Started With NVIDIA Omniverse

Libraries

Blueprints

Transforming Every Industry With NVIDIA Omniverse

Skild AI: Pioneering Omni-Bodied Intelligence Through Simulation

Lightwheel Accelerates Physical AI Development With NVIDIA Simulation and Foundation Models

Siemens Accelerates Product Development and Innovation With Industrial AI

Industry Leaders Adopt Omniverse

The Latest From Omniverse

Omniverse News

Stay Up to Date on NVIDIA Omniverse News

Frequently Asked Questions

What is NVIDIA Omniverse?

How can I develop on NVIDIA Omniverse?

Where can I access legacy tools like Omniverse Launcher?

What is NVIDIA Cosmos, and how is it different from Omniverse?