The Robotics Revolution: NVIDIA Unveils Physical AI and the Jetson T4000 at CES 2026

NVIDIA announced a comprehensive “Physical AI” ecosystem at CES 2026, unveiling the Cosmos platform and related models—Cosmos Reason 2 (VLM), Isaac GR00T N1.6 (VLA for humanoids), and Alpamayo (autonomous driving)—alongside updates to Nemotron and Clara, the Isaac Lab-Arena simulation framework, and the OSMO orchestration system. The company also integrated Isaac/GR00T with Hugging Face’s LeRobot and introduced edge hardware based on Blackwell, including the Jetson T4000 and Jetson Thor, targeting high-performance robotics. Early industry adoption spans Caterpillar (industrial automation), LEM Surgical and XRlabs (healthcare robotics), and Salesforce (video analytics with Cosmos Reason), signaling NVIDIA’s intent to make robotics a core pillar of the next AI era.