GTC2026 Zhiyuan Partners with NVIDIA to Build Physical AI Standard Ecosystem and Accelerate Global Deployment

Recently, the NVIDIA GPU Technology Conference (GTC2026), regarded as a global benchmark for artificial intelligence development, has begun. NVIDIA Founder and CEO Jensen Huang announced deep collaborations with global robotics ecosystems and industry leaders, including Zhiyuan Robotics, to deploy physical AI at scale, promote the application of intelligent robots in factories, logistics, transportation, healthcare, and infrastructure, and accelerate the real-world implementation of robots.

Zhiyuan Robotics is one of NVIDIA’s key ecosystem partners. During NVIDIA’s keynote at CES early 2026, Zhiyuan was the only Chinese robotics company mentioned by Jensen Huang. He praised Zhiyuan’s commercial capabilities in real-world scenarios and its outstanding performance in data collection and training. Zhiyuan Robotics has completed a standardized closed-loop process from R&D and simulation to real machine deployment, establishing China’s embodied intelligence industry as a leader in the global ecosystem.

At GTC2026, NVIDIA again showcased its deep partnership with Zhiyuan Robotics, highlighting a series of collaborative achievements. The cooperation focuses on robotics hardware platforms, full-stack edge-cloud computing, pretraining of the GR00T embodied base model, and industrial-grade mass production, forming a full-chain technical collaboration to define industry standards for physical AI from development to mass production.

It is understood that Zhiyuan Robotics and NVIDIA are jointly adapting hardware for the onboard superbrain, supporting billion-parameter VLA models and world models for efficient local inference on robot bodies, meeting the needs of 0.1-millimeter precision operations and long-range autonomous planning in scenarios such as electronics manufacturing, automotive assembly, and logistics.

As one of the first global ecosystem partners of NVIDIA Isaac GR00T N series, NVIDIA Gear Lab uses Zhiyuan Robotics’ Elf G1 to scale model training and validate model capabilities, creating a repeatable process for general skill transfer and agile operation deployment. The two sides are collaboratively optimizing the Cosmos world model integration solution, with Zhiyuan’s self-developed simulation platform fully connected to the Omniverse ecosystem, establishing standardized technical pathways for environment perception, state prediction, and task generalization. This advances physical AI development from customization to modularization and engineering, setting industry standards for physical AI development and deployment.

NVIDIA officially listed Zhiyuan Robotics as a global leader in physical AI at GTC2026. With end-to-end standardization capabilities across hardware, software, and deployment, Zhiyuan Robotics forms a value closed loop. The company states that, at the ecosystem level, it promotes standardization through open-source collaboration, participates in global physical AI technology development, and transforms Chinese scenario practices into internationally applicable standards, helping China move from technology follower to standard setter.