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NVIDIA Jetson Thor x Caterpillar (Autonomous Mining & Construction)
Caterpillar and NVIDIA announced a partnership at CES 2026 to bring physical AI to heavy industry. NVIDIA Jetson Thor platform enables real-time AI inference on Cat construction, mining, and power equipment. Machines equipped with AI-driven recommendations can process billions of data points in milliseconds to navigate complex jobsite conditions. The on-machine AI system works without cloud connectivity, providing natural voice guidance to operators.
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- Activeoperating
- Announced
- 2026-01-079 months ago
- Active for
- 9 months
Who’s involved
World leader in accelerated computing and AI (NASDAQ: NVDA). In physical AI, NVIDIA develops the Isaac robotics platform: the GR00T open foundation model, Jetson edge compute (AGX Thor), Isaac Lab and Isaac Sim simulation environments, and Omniverse. NVIDIA positions itself as the platform layer for the humanoid industry. Developer of [GR00T N1](/brains/gr00t-n1), the first open humanoid foundation model.
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