ABB Robotics partners with NVIDIA Omniverse for industrial physical AI simulation

ABB Robotics and NVIDIA have announced a partnership integrating NVIDIA Omniverse libraries directly into ABB's RobotStudio programming and simulation suite. This will deliver physically accurate simulation capabilities in the platform. The new product, called RobotStudio HyperReality, will be available in the second half of 2026. It is projected to reduce deployment costs by up to 40 percent and accelerate time to market by as much as 50 percent. Early pilots include Foxconn and Workr. Marc Segura, president of ABB Robotics, said combining RobotStudio with the physically accurate simulation power of NVIDIA Omniverse libraries has closed technology's long standing sim to real gap. This is a milestone to deploying physical AI with industrial grade precision for real world customer applications. Deepu Talla, vice president of robotics and edge AI at NVIDIA, said the integration brings advanced simulation and accelerated computing to ABB's virtual controller technology. The industrial sector needs high fidelity simulation to bridge the gap between virtual training and real world deployment of AI driven robotics at scale. The system allows manufacturers to design, program, test and validate entire automation cells before deploying a single robot. RobotStudio HyperReality exports a fully parameterized robot station as a USD file into NVIDIA Omniverse, where ABB's virtual controller runs the same firmware as the physical robot. This enables 99 percent correlation between simulation and real world behavior. Synthetic images generated in Omniverse feed directly into AI training pipelines. ABB Robotics is also exploring the integration of the NVIDIA Jetson edge AI platform into its Omnicore controller to enable real time inference across its robot portfolio. Workr, a California based robotic workforce company, is integrating its physical AI platform with ABB industrial robots trained with synthetic data from NVIDIA Omniverse libraries.