Rockwell Automation is extending its collaboration with NVIDIA to boost development of safer and smarter industrial AI mobile robots.

Earlier this year Rockwell announced it was working with NVIDIA on AI in manufacturing. That collaboration is now expanding to involve robotics. The aim is to drive the use of AI in autonomous mobile robots (AMRs).

“We’re invigorated by this continued collaboration with NVIDIA,” said Ryan Gariepy, CTO, OTTO Motors by Rockwell Automation. “Rockwell’s industrial AI expertise, combined with NVIDIA AI and robotics technologies, is going to help drive an exciting new generation of autonomous mobile robots.”

Rockwell is integrating NVIDIA Omniverse Cloud application programming interfaces (APIs) with its Emulate3D software. This aims to provide data interoperability, live collaboration, and photo-realistic graphics rendering for designing, building, and operating industrial-scale digital twins of production systems.