The School of Convergence Science, Human and Artificial Intelligence is delighted to host NVIDIA Robotics Day 2026, an event closely aligned with the School’s grand challenge on embodied intelligence.
Details
Where: Sir Alexander Fleming building, G16
When: Wednesday, 11 Feb, 11:00-16:30
Who should attend? This event is open to Imperial academics and Master’s & PhD students
Event page: https://www.imperial.ac.uk/events/204543/nvidia-robotics-day-2026/
Please register for this event.
About this event
The programme will feature engaging presentations from Imperial’s world-leading robotics researchers, showcasing breakthroughs across the field. Alongside these, NVIDIA experts will deliver a series of in-depth technical sessions offering a deep dive into the emerging embodied AI stack. The NVIDIA lectures will explore the convergence of differentiable physics, world foundation models, and generalist robot learning. Topics will include the evolution of simulation platforms, next-generation physics solvers, and the deployment of foundation models across both general robotics and specialized healthcare applications.
NVIDIA Technical Sessions — Topics Overview
Isaac Lab 3.0 & Isaac Lab Arena
- Isaac Lab 3.0 architectural breakdown, roadmap and focus.
- Isaac Lab Arena platform for VLA evaluation, environment building tooling, and standardization
Newton Physics Framework
- Technical deep dive into the new NVIDIA Warp-based physics solver (a joint effort with Google DeepMind and Disney Research)
- Architectural motivations, design insights, and solver overview
- Roadmap for community contributions and upcoming integration with Isaac Lab
Project GR00T & LeRobot
- Technical overview of GR00T-Nx models and development roadmap
- LeRobot integration for streamlined post-training workflows and evaluation pipelines
NVIDIA Cosmos
- Overview of the world foundation model trained exclusively on physically correct data
- Breakdown of sub-models (Reason, Transfer, Predict) and their roles in data curation, generation, and closed-loop evaluation
Isaac for Healthcare
- Platform overview connecting NVIDIA Isaac with NVIDIA HCL SDKs for medical and surgical robotics
Agenda:
- 11:00 | NVIDIA introduction
- 11:20 | Imperial introduction
- 11:30 | Overview of NV Stack
- 11:50 | Deep dive session 1 (Isaac Lab Roadmap, Newton Physics, Cosmos)
- 13:00 | Working lunch
- 13:30 | Deep dive session 2 (GROOT models and workflows, Isaac4Healthcare)
- 15:00 | Imperial showcase
- 16:30 | Close