ABB Robotics and NVIDIA have entered a strategic partnership to deliver industrial-grade physical AI in the manufacturing sector by embedding NVIDIA’s Omniverse libraries in ABB’s RobotStudio simulation and programming software. This partnership is set to offer a new solution, termed ‘RobotStudio HyperReality,’ which will allow manufacturers to design, program, and validate their robotic solutions in very realistic virtual environments before deployment in the factory. By combining photorealistic simulation, synthetic data generation, and ABB’s virtual controller technology, the system can achieve up to 99% correlation between simulation and real-world performance, helping close the long-standing “sim-to-real” gap in industrial robotics. The approach allows engineers to model entire automation cells-including robots, sensors, lighting, and components-within a digital twin environment, reducing engineering time, cutting deployment costs by up to 40%, and accelerating time to market by as much as 50%.
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“Combining RobotStudio with the physically accurate simulation power of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, we have closed technology’s long-standing ‘sim-to-real’ gap – a huge milestone to deploying physical AI with industrial-grade precision, for real-world customer applications,” said Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics. “The industrial sector needs high‑fidelity simulation to bridge the gap between virtual training and real‑world deployment of AI‑driven robotics at scale,” said Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge AI at NVIDIA. “Integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries into RobotStudio brings advanced simulation and accelerated computing to ABB’s virtual controller technology, accelerating how thousands of manufacturers bring complex products to market.”