Nvidia and Google DeepMind will help power Disney's cute robots

Nvidia CEO Chats Up Star Wars-Inspired Droid As Chip Maker Partners With Disney, Google And Lays Out The AI Revolution

Nvidia has partnered with Google DeepMind and Disney on an engine for robot learning as the chip maker's CEO described the AI "tipping point" at GTC.

Nvidia and Google DeepMind will help power Disney's cute robots

Nvidia is collaborating with Disney Research and Google DeepMind to develop Newton, a physics engine to simulate robotic movements.

NVIDIA Announces Newton: Open-Source Physics Engine For Robotics Simulation

Technology company NVIDIA has unveiled Newton, an open-source and extensible physics engine developed in collaboration with Google DeepMind and Disney Research, aimed at enhancing robot learning and development. Based on NVIDIA Warp, which allows robots to learn complex tasks with improved accuracy, Newton is designed to work seamlessly with learning frameworks like MuJoCo Playground and NVIDIA Isaac Lab, an open-source platform for unified robo…

‘We only build technology in the interest of storytelling’ – Disney’s associate lab director of Robotics on the Star Wars BDX Droids and what lies ahead

Disney's BDX Droids are everywhere, so to unpack how these droids to came be and where they're going, TechRadar chatted with Disney's Moritz Bächer, associate lab director of Robotics.

In March 2025, during the GPU Technology Conference (GTC) organized by Nvidia in San Jose, California, an innovative collaboration was presented between Google, Nvidia and Disney: a robot inspired by the universe of ‘Star Wars’, known as ‘Blue’. The ‘Blue’ project and its inspiration in ‘Star Wars’ ‘Blue’ is a robot developed in collaboration with Disney Research and Google DeepMind, designed to emulate the beloved droids of the ‘Star Wars’ saga…

Nvidia, Google, and Disney are partnering up to make Star Wars Droids real

🤖 Nvidia demos a new Star Wars-inspired droid named Blue🤯 Blue walked around stage so naturally it looks like CGI, but its real. LOOK AT IT! 🧠It was powered by two on-board Nvidia AI computers and a new Newton physics engine🆕 Disney Research and Google Deepmind are codeveloping Newton for the next generation of robotics🦾 Nvidia also introduced Isaac GR00T N1 to develop more human-like robotsNvidia unveiled a little droid named Blue that loo…