Physical AI
NVIDIA Omniverse
Libraries and microservices for developing industrial digital twins and physical AI simulation applications.
Overview
What is NVIDIA Omniverse?
NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a collection of libraries and microservices for developing physical AI applications such as industrial digital twins and robotics simulation.
Leveraging NVIDIA’s deep expertise in accelerated computing and AI, Omniverse libraries enable software makers to integrate pre-built functionality into their solutions.
Technology
Omniverse Libraries
NVIDIA Omniverse libraries, microservices, and APIs are built on top of OpenUSD to simplify the adoption of NVIDIA’s physical AI simulation technologies across data interoperability, physics, and rendering.
RTX
Sensor simulation and physically-based, real-time rendering libraries built on NVIDIA RTX™ for generating datasets at scale.
Physics
GPU-accelerated physics libraries, including NVIDIA PhysX® and NVIDIA Warp, enable scalable simulation and modeling.
Runtime
Optimized data architecture and runtime for faster development, performance, and collaboration.
Use Cases
How Omniverse Libraries Are Being Used
See how developers across industries are integrating Omniverse libraries into their solutions.
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Industrial Facility Digital Twins
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Synthetic Data Generation
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Robot
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Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
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Robot
Learning
Industrial Facility Digital Twins
Leverage Omniverse libraries to develop advanced virtual factory solutions and bring data interoperability, physically based visualization, generative AI, and real-time collaboration to your software.
Delta Electronics
Synthetic Data Generation
Developers can save significant training time and reduce costs by using synthetic data alongside real-world data to create carefully labeled datasets for training multimodal physical AI models. And now, with NVIDIA Cosmos™, developers can generate even larger datasets with 3D-to-real workflows.
Robot Simulation
Physical AI-powered robots and robot fleets must autonomously sense, plan, and execute complex tasks in the physical world. These include safely and efficiently transporting and manipulating objects in dynamic, unpredictable environments.
Autonomous Vehicle Simulation
With NVIDIA Cosmos, conditioned on Omniverse physics libraries, simulation developers can enhance their AV simulation workflows with high-fidelity, diverse sensor data and realistic behavior to train perception models and validate the AV software stack.
Robot Learning
Preprogrammed robots struggle with unexpected changes, while AI-driven robots use simulation-based learning to adapt to dynamic environments. This enables them to refine capabilities such as navigation and manipulation, improving performance in a wide range of scenarios.
Agility, Apptronik, Fourier Intelligence, Unitree
Starting Options
Ways to Get Started With NVIDIA Omniverse
Ecosystem
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Resources
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Next Steps
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Frequently Asked Questions
NVIDIA Omniverse™ is a collection of libraries and microservices for developing physical AI applications such as industrial digital twins and robotics simulation. Leveraging NVIDIA’s deep expertise in accelerated computing and AI, Omniverse libraries enable software makers to integrate pre-built functionality into their solutions. These libraries include developer tools, GPU-accelerated libraries, and technologies packaged as microservices and cloud APIs for streamlined development and deployment.
There are two ways to start developing with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries:
- Leverage NVIDIA Omniverse libraries within your physical AI application for direct integration of prebuilt functionality, including sensor simulation, physically based real-time rendering, and advanced physics.
- Jump-start building physical AI solutions with NVIDIA Blueprints, comprehensive reference projects and workflows that use NVIDIA AI and Omniverse technologies to help developers build and customize end-to-end applications such as industrial digital twins and robotics simulations.
Learn more about developing with NVIDIA Omniverse libraries here.
NVIDIA Omniverse Launcher (Deprecated)
The Omniverse Launcher was deprecated on October 1, 2025 to better align with developers and their expected development workflows.
Many of the Omniverse applications, tools, and assets that used to live in Launcher will transition to the following locations:
- Kit, Apps, Samples, Tools, and Templates are available on GitHub and the NGC Catalog.
- Connectors are available in the NGC Catalog.
- Extensions are available directly from the associated vendor's web pages or NVIDIA OpenUSD Ecosystem Catalog.
- Content and Assets are available on NVIDIA Documentation Hub (OmniDocs).
Visit Omniverse legacy tools and NVIDIA developer forums for more details.
Nucleus Workstation
Nucleus Workstation on Launcher was deprecated on October 1, 2025. Developers wishing to continue using Nucleus can obtain the Enterprise Nucleus Server software from the NGC Catalog (login required). The Enterprise Nucleus Server is free for testing and development, but an enterprise license is required for production use and includes enterprise support. See Omniverse legacy tools for more details.
NVIDIA Cosmos is a world model (WFM) development platform. At its core are Cosmos WFMs that generate world states as videos using multimodal input.
Developers can input Omniverse simulations as instructional videos to the Cosmos Transfer WFM model to generate controllable, photorealistic synthetic data.
Together, Omniverse provides the simulation environment before and after training, while Cosmos photoreal controllable synthetic data to train physical AI models.
Omniverse Enterprise includes licensable software and full Enterprise Support. This is suitable for on-premises or cloud deployments.
The Omniverse Enterprise license now includes NVIDIA AI Enterprise at no additional cost. This overarching license is NVIDIA Enterprise.