Cadence, Nvidia working together on developing AI for robotics

Cadence Design Systems

15/04/2026 17:43

By Stephen Nellis

SANTA CLARA, California, April 15 (Reuters) - Cadence Design Systems CDNS.O and Nvidia NVDA.O are partnering to further the development of artificial intelligence for robots, the CEOs of the two companies said on Wednesday.

Cadence, which is one of the major suppliers of the software used in designing advanced computing chips, is working with Nvidia to integrate its physics engines, which predict how real-world materials interact, with Nvidia AI models designed to train robots inside computer simulations.

Training robots inside such simulations can be faster than training them in the real world. The goal of the collaboration, the two CEOs said at a conference hosted by Cadence in Santa Clara, California, is to shrink the time needed to get robots to carry out useful tasks.

 (Reporting by Stephen Nellis in Santa Clara, California)

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