- Nvidia’s new $3,499 robot “brain” aims to make humanoid machines as quick-thinking and sure-footed as experienced workers, bringing more AI decision-making out of distant data centers and directly onto factory floors, warehouses, hospitals, and farms.
When Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang delivered the keynote address at the company’s annual GTC conference in March, he outlined the “four waves” of AI evolution: perception AI was the first wave, which started about 10 years ago and focused on recognizing speech and classifying images. Generative AI, the second wave that’s dominated the past five years and characterized by large-language models like ChatGPT, creates text and images based on predictive patterns. The current wave we’re in, agentic AI, allows for models to reason and perform tasks independently. But the next and final wave, according to Huang, will be “physical AI,” where AI is integrated into real-world applications and advanced automation systems, including human-like robots.
