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Notes on building physical AI

Research, engineering, and product writing from the team teaching and coordinating the world’s robot fleets.

Deploys on your robots Validated in NVIDIA simulation No hardware at risk

Read by teams building physical AI

NORTHFORGE Vantek MERIDIAN 3PL AxisWorks Polaris CPG Cobalt Robotics
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What we’ve been writing.

Simulation

Why we train every skill in the twin first

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Engineering · 7 min
Sim-to-real

Closing the reality gap with domain randomization

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Research · 9 min
Agents

Designing an agentic planner for the factory floor

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Engineering · 8 min
Safety

What a safety gate actually checks

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Product · 5 min
World models

Using world-model rollouts for synthetic scenarios

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Research · 10 min
Edge

Real-time policy inference on Jetson Thor

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Engineering · 6 min
Series

Deep dives

Multi-part explorations.

Series

The data flywheel, part 1

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Platform · 8 min
Series

The data flywheel, part 2

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Platform · 7 min
Series

Cross-embodiment skills, part 1

Practical notes on building, validating, and scaling physical-AI fleets.

Research · 9 min
Enterprise

Built for the plant and the boardroom

Land on one cell, expand to the line, then every site, with the controls IT and operations require.

Deploy your way

Cloud, VPC, or fully on-prem with NVIDIA AI Enterprise support.

SSO & RBAC

SAML/OIDC, SCIM provisioning, granular per-site roles.

SLAs & support

99.9% control-plane uptime, dedicated solutions engineering.

Integrator channel

Certified partners to stand up sites fast.

Safety certification

Documented validation trail for every deployed skill.

ROI reporting

Throughput, uptime, and cost-per-task dashboards for finance.

Topics

What we cover

6
core topics
30+
articles
4
GPU-essential stages
2
posts a month
Themes

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Simulation

Training, gates, and reproducibility.

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World models

Rollouts and synthetic data.

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Agents

Planning and coordination.

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Safety

Validation and certification.

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Edge

Deploying to Jetson.

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Operations

ROI and analytics.

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Readers

What people take away

“The sim-to-real posts changed how our team validates skills.”
MRMarco RuizHead of Automation, Vantek
“Clear, honest engineering writing. Rare in robotics.”
PNPriya NairPlant Engineering, Meridian 3PL
“The data flywheel series finally made the strategy click for us.”
SWSam WhitfieldCOO, AxisWorks
Integrations

Works with the stack on your floor

Vendor-agnostic across robots, controllers, and systems of record.

Robots & arms

Universal RobotsFANUCKUKAABBFetchBoston Dynamics

AMRs & humanoids

MiROTTOLocusAgilityApptronikFigure

Controllers & sensors

ROS 2PLCs / OPC-UAIntel RealSenseZividSICKCognex

Systems of record

SAPManhattan WMSBlue YonderNetSuiteSnowflakeDatabricks
Security & safety

Enterprise-grade, safety-first by design

Robots act in the physical world, so every skill is validated before it ever touches hardware.

SOC 2 Type II ISO 27001 GDPR ISO 10218 / RIA R15.06 SSO / SAML Audit logs

Safety gates

Every policy must pass success + collision + force limits in sim before deploy.

Encryption everywhere

AES-256 at rest, TLS 1.3 in transit, per-site key isolation.

Data residency

Run in your VPC or on-prem; telemetry never leaves your boundary.

SSO, SCIM & RBAC

SAML/OIDC, provisioning, and role-based access down to the cell.

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