Nebius (NBIS) announced the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month program providing British and European robotics startups with NVIDIA’s physical AI development tools and Nebius’s AI cloud infrastructure.

The program addresses barriers early-stage robotics companies face in accessing large-scale simulation, synthetic data, and accelerated compute resources needed for physical AI development. Participating startups will use NVIDIA technologies including OSMO for workload orchestration, Cosmos world foundation models, and Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for robot simulation and training.

The first phase will run on Nebius’s UK-based infrastructure built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs. Applications are processed through the NVIDIA Inception pipeline, with the first cohort beginning in September 2026.

“Most robotics teams can build a strong model — the bottleneck is getting the simulation, synthetic data, and compute in place to take it further,” said Evan Helda, Head of Physical AI at Nebius. The program provides founders access to the NVIDIA physical AI stack on Nebius AI Cloud along with direct engineering support.

Anthony Hills, Director, UK&I at NVIDIA, stated the lab aims to close the gap between UK robotics innovation and market-ready physical AI solutions by providing affordable access to cloud-scale training and NVIDIA’s simulation and synthetic data tools.

The program builds on Nebius and NVIDIA’s collaboration to create a cloud platform for robotics and physical AI. The companies plan to extend the Physical AI Living Lab to other regions and additional cohorts over time.

Engineers from both Nebius and NVIDIA will provide technical guidance throughout the program. Synthetic data generation is provided through Voxel51’s FiftyOne integration using Cosmos world foundation models.