@rohanpaul_ai: Chinese robots hold 86% of total global humanoid shipments and Nvidia is extending its CUDA playbook into that concentr…
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Chinese robots dominate global humanoid shipments at 86%, and Nvidia is expanding its CUDA-style ecosystem into the concentrated robotics market, as reported by WSJ.
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Chinese robots hold 86% of total global humanoid shipments and Nvidia is extending its CUDA playbook into that concentrated robotics market.
WSJ published a peice
China’s concentration makes Nvidia’s CUDA-style strategy easier to scale because Nvidia only needs to become deeply embedded in a handful of robot makers to sit underneath most of the market.
The lesson Nvidia learned from CUDA was that selling the chip is much more powerful when developers also build their software around your platform.
Nvidia is trying to create the robotics version of that dependency:
Robot maker → Nvidia GPU/Jetson → CUDA → Isaac/GR00T/Cosmos → simulation, training, robot control and deployment
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