NXP and NVIDIA jointly launch new robotic solutions

China Economic Journalists Li Yuyang, Shanghai Report

During the recent NVIDIA GTC 2026 conference, traditional semiconductor giant NXP Semiconductors (NASDAQ: NXPI) announced a robot solution developed in partnership with NVIDIA. This marks the first product in NXP’s Basic Robotics Solution Series.

The solution combines NVIDIA’s Holoscan Sensor Bridge with NXP’s highly integrated System-on-Chip (SoC), providing reliable, secure real-time data processing and transmission, as well as advanced network connectivity. It supports sensor fusion, machine vision, and precise motor control. Additionally, the solution reduces the number of discrete components, significantly saves space, lowers power consumption and costs, and simplifies software complexity for robot perception and actuation. It is also suitable for humanoid robot forms.

Physical AI represents the next frontier of innovation, characterized by systems capable of sensing, understanding, and interacting with their environment accurately, reliably, and securely. NXP believes that humanoid robots are one of the most advanced embodiments of physical AI, requiring safe, reliable, low-latency data processing and transmission throughout the robot to enable synchronized movement, high-density sensor fusion, and advanced control.

Specifically, this solution seamlessly integrates NVIDIA’s Holoscan Sensor Bridge into NXP’s software enablement ecosystem, allowing developers to easily achieve real-time processing and establish direct data pathways between the robot’s body and its “brain,” significantly reducing latency. This greatly simplifies the challenge of bringing AI into the physical world, with real-time decision-making being a key requirement.

Among NXP’s robot product lineup supporting Holoscan Sensor Bridge, the first include a machine vision solution based on the i.MX 95 application processor, capable of transmitting high-bandwidth data to the robot’s “brain,” and a motor control solution based on the i.MX RT1180 crossover MCU, with a motor control chain converged via NXP’s S32J TSN switch and directly connected to the “brain.” This motor control solution supports mainstream industrial protocols such as EtherCAT® and Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN). These solutions are scheduled to launch in the first half of 2026.

(Editors: Wu Qing; Review: Li Zhenghao; Proofreading: Yan Yuxia)

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