Nvidia is launching a safety system for humanoid robots working alongside people

The system draws on technology developed for self-driving vehicles and will first be used in Agility Robotics' Digit humanoid

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Nvidia $NVDA announced a safety system for robots operating in factories, warehouses, and logistics facilities alongside human workers, as the industry works to make humanoids reliable enough for close contact with people.

Branded as Halos for Robotics, the offering brings AI compute hardware, system software, sensor data, safety applications, and inspection together within a unified architecture, according to the company. The technology behind it was built on a foundation representing more than 18,600 engineering years of work on autonomous vehicle safety.

Agility Robotics is the first company to incorporate elements of the system into its humanoid robot, Digit, which is already deployed at facilities run by........

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