OpenUSD and Digital Twins Drive Industrial AI Innovation
Advancements in OpenUSD and digital twins are accelerating industrial and physical AI development, enabling scalable and accurate simulations.
NVIDIA has announced significant advancements in OpenUSD and digital twin technologies, which are transforming industries by enabling scalable, physically accurate simulations for industrial AI and physical AI. These innovations are helping developers streamline workflows, optimize operations, and train AI agents, autonomous vehicles, and robots efficiently.
Key Developments
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OpenUSD Ecosystem Growth: The Alliance for OpenUSD (AOUSD) has expanded with new members like Accenture, Esri, and Renault, strengthening the ecosystem for 3D workflows. NVIDIA also launched an OpenUSD development certification and a free digital twins learning path.
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Omniverse Libraries and Tools: New Omniverse SDKs bridge MuJoCo and OpenUSD, enabling over 250,000 robot learning developers to simulate robots across platforms. Omniverse NuRec libraries allow real-world 3D reconstruction using sensor data.
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Isaac Sim 5.0 and Isaac Lab 2.2: These open-source frameworks, now on GitHub, feature neural rendering and OpenUSD schemas to narrow the simulation-to-reality gap.
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Cosmos World Foundation Models (WFMs): Models like Cosmos Transfer-2 and NVIDIA Cosmos Reason enhance synthetic data generation and reasoning for physical AI.
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Industry Applications: Companies like Siemens, Sight Machine, and Rockwell Automation are leveraging digital twins for design optimization, real-time production visibility, and factory-scale simulations.
Impact and Future Directions
Digital twins are revolutionizing manufacturing by reducing the need for physical prototypes and accelerating time to market. uses them to train robotic arms, while simplifies intelligent manufacturing deployments with Omniverse and Jetson hardware.
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