Fanuc and NVIDIA Deepen Physical AI Partnership: ROS 2, Digital Twins, and Voice-to-Code Interfaces
Fanuc and NVIDIA announced deep collaboration integrating NVIDIA Jetson edge modules, Isaac Sim, and Omniverse with Fanuc's ROS 2 driver and RoboGuide simulation software. The partnership enables photorealistic digital twins for virtual training, edge inference on Jetson hardware, and a novel voice command interface that automatically generates Python robot control code. The system specifically addresses skilled labor shortages by making robot programming accessible to non-specialists, with demonstrations showing dramatically reduced commissioning times.