Robotics have been a foundational element of Nvidia’s stratospheric growth in recent years. When the chip maker announced GR00T in March of last year, it

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says the new family of foundational AI models was trained on 20 million hours of “humans walking, hands moving, manipulating things.”

Nvidia is taking its artificial intelligence expertise out of the data center and offices and into factories and on the road as it unveiled new AI initiatives at CES 2025 late Monday. Nvidia stock rallied ahead of the news.

Nvidia offered more detail on its ambitions to expand its AI footprint to robotics, revealed last year as GR00T. With the Blueprints modality, individuals can demonstrate actions using an Apple Vision Pro that can be used to educate robots on how to perform specific tasks.