Nvidia announces humanoid robot plans, self-driving car technologies at CES 2026
LAS VEGAS — Nvidia (NVDA) is unveiling its latest robotics advancements at CES 2026 as the broader tech industry begins a large-scale effort to bring humanoid robots to life.
During the company’s keynote on Monday, CEO Jensen Huang revealed that companies ranging from Boston Dynamics and Caterpillar (CAT) to LG Electronics and NEURA Robotics are using Nvidia’s robotics technologies to develop and power a variety of bots.
Nvidia has claimed that physical AI could revolutionize the $50 trillion manufacturing and logistics industries, and the company wants to be at the center of it all.
During CES, Nvidia revealed several new AI models that will help robots interact with the world around them, as well as the hardware needed to power their digital brains.
In addition to humanoid robots, Nvidia also introduced a new model family of driverless cars called Alpamayo. According to the company, Alpamayo uses the vision language action (VLA) model based on chain-of-thought reasoning.
That’s a lot to consider, but essentially the models are able to recognize unique driving situations that might not occur during a normal ride and find the right path to proceed.
For example, the model can see that a traffic light is out as a vehicle approaches an intersection, recognize the problem, and try to figure out what to do next.
Nvidia said the models are meant to serve as “large-scale teacher models that developers can fine-tune and distill into the backbones of their entire model.” [self-driving] heaps.”
In other words, Alpamayo aims to help developers improve autonomous vehicle technologies over time.
He said companies such as Nvidia, Lucid (LCID), Uber (UBER) and Berkeley DeepDrive have shown interest in Alpamayo.
Self-driving vehicles are hitting roads around the world, led by Google’s Waymo, but they’re still not perfect. Some cars have caused traffic jams and, in some cases, confusion.
Nvidia sees virtual training as a useful solution for the continued evolution of technology, allowing developers to teach AI models without having to put cars on the road all the time.
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