NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang declared "The ChatGPT moment for robotics is here" at CES 2026, as the company unveiled groundbreaking open models, frameworks and AI infrastructure for physical AI—technology that enables robots to understand the physical world, reason, and plan actions autonomously.
The announcement centers on NVIDIA's flagship AI platform codenamed "Vera Rubin," following the highly successful Blackwell architecture. Vera Rubin delivers radical improvements in processing power and memory bandwidth, specifically optimized for the computational demands of robots that must perceive, reason about, and interact with complex three-dimensional environments in real time.
"Breakthroughs in physical AI are unlocking entirely new applications," Huang emphasized during his keynote. The technology represents a fundamental shift from traditional AI that processes text and images to systems that can navigate warehouses, manipulate objects with precision, and collaborate safely alongside humans in manufacturing facilities.