On June 1, NVIDIA, the chip giant headquartered in Santa Clara, California, stated that in addition to cooperating with Chinese humanoid robot company Yushu Technology, the company also plans to cooperate with humanoid robot manufacturers in the United States, Europe and South Korea to create standardized robot platforms for scientific research institutions. The news was revealed by company executives on the eve of the opening of Computex (Taipei International Computer Show) in Taipei, Taiwan.
After Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang delivered a keynote speech in Taiwan on Monday, Nvidia announced that it is cooperating with China's leading humanoid robot manufacturer Yushu Technology to launch a standardized H2 humanoid robot version for academic research institutions. According to reports, the robot body is provided by Yushu, the manipulator is from Singapore-based Sharpa, and the computing "central brain" is equipped with an NVIDIA chip platform. Nvidia said researchers at Stanford University, the University of California, San Diego and other institutions plan to use the platform to conduct research.
Yushu attracted attention for its "dancing robot" that appeared on the Chinese New Year Gala stage earlier this year, and is currently promoting the company's listing in China. However, some U.S. congressmen have alleged that Yushu has extensive ties with the Chinese government and military and have proposed a bill to ban scientific researchers who receive U.S. government funding from using robotic equipment produced by the company.
Nvidia executives told Reuters that the company plans to replicate a model similar to the Yushu cooperation outside China and is in contact with a number of robotics companies in the United States, South Korea and Europe. The executives spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans have not been made public, and the names of potential partners were not disclosed.
According to reports, one of the focuses of cooperation between Nvidia and Yushu is to improve the network and system security of this type of robots in scientific research environments. For example, any future software updates for the various subsystems of the robot must go through the "gateway" of NVIDIA chips in order to verify the authenticity and security of the updated code.
By directly integrating NVIDIA's latest generation "Blackwell" series chips into Yushu's humanoid robot body, NVIDIA will also deploy the same level of security protection mechanisms as its data center servers on its own research platforms. NVIDIA executives said that these include technologies such as "secure boot" and "confidential computing" to ensure that robots cannot run malicious code and prevent sensitive data from being exported from robot devices without authorization.