Nvidia unveils Mega Omniverse blueprint for building industrial robot fleet digital twins, as part of a CES 2025 keynote speech by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
The new framework enables next era of industrial AI and robot simulation through software-defined testing and optimization to factories and warehouses, the company said. According to Gartner, the worldwide end-user spending on all IT products for 2024 was $5 trillion. This industry is built on a computing fabric of electrons, is fully software-defined, accelerated — and now generative AI-enabled. While huge, it’s a fraction of the larger physical industrial market that relies on the movement of atoms.
“In the future, every factory will have a digital twin,” Huang said.
Today’s 10 million factories, nearly 200,000 warehouses and 40 million miles of highways form the “computing” fabric of our physical world. But that vast network of production facilities and distribution centers is still laboriously and manually designed, operated and optimized.
In warehousing and distribution, operators face highly complex decision optimization problems — matrices of variables and interdependencies across human workers, robotic and agentic systems and equipment. Unlike the IT industry, the physical industrial market is still waiting for its own software-defined moment.
That moment is coming, Nvidia said.
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A bulk carrier has been escorted into port after catching fire off Western Australia's south-east coast. Smoke was seen billowing from the Mayuree Naree for several hours on Monday. When the fire broke out, the Thai ship had been anchored about 7 kilometres offshore waiting to come into Esperance Port, 700 kilometres south-east of Perth. There are no reports of injuries, and the extent of the damage is unclear
at this stage.
Esperance Port is the deepest port in southern Australia and operated by the state government authority, Southern Ports.
Southern Ports, which also manages regional ports at Albany and Bunbury, has been contacted for comment.
Port jobs under a cloud
The incident comes after Southern Ports issued a warning to Esperance beach-goers in November to steer clear of a dangerous goods canister that fell off a grain ship.
The port at Esperance has been under a cloud recently with the threat of job losses due to mine closures.
The last trainload of iron ore from Mineral Resources' Yilgarn iron ore operations arrived at Esperance Port last week.
It follows last year's closure of the Ravensthorpe nickel mine and the Bald Hill lithium mine near Kambalda, with both mines exporting out of Esperance.
Another port customer, the Mt Cattlin lithium mine near Ravensthorpe, is scheduled to close mid-year.
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