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Prusa Research is a Czech 3D printer manufacturer founded in 2012 by Josef Průša in Prague and built on the open-source RepRap tradition. The company produces the Original Prusa MK4S, XL, MINI+, and CORE One FDM printers alongside the SL1S SLA printer, the PrusaSlicer software, and the Printables.com model library. Bootstrapped and founder-owned with no external funding, Prusa Research was the world's second-largest 3D printer manufacturer in 2020 and operates the Prusa Farm print-farm model for mass-production of its own printer parts. In 2023-2024 the company partially shifted away from open-source hardware in response to [Bambu lab](/companies/bambu-lab) competition and acquired Trilab to enter the industrial 3D printing market.

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.