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Richard Chen

US chip giant Nvidia is ramping up a talent drive for its robotics team in China, a market whose vendors account for the lion’s share of global shipments.
The Silicon Valley firm is recruiting for more than a dozen roles across Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, according to a post on its official WeChat account on Monday. The positions span four key domains: embodied intelligence, simulation, implementation and solutions.
Nvidia said its robotics team planned to build a “leading robotics platform and ecosystem to help developers and companies create autonomous machines”, with the aim of accelerating the journey of robots from research labs into real-world deployment across various business scenarios.
The hiring push underscores Nvidia’s growing emphasis on physical AI, an emerging field that combines AI models with robotics, enabling machines to perceive, reason and interact with the physical world.
Job descriptions revealed that employees would work around its technologies including the Project GR00T humanoid robot foundation model, the Cosmos physical simulation world model, and the company’s GPU-accelerated computing platforms, consisting of an all-around robotics technology development ecosystem, the company noted in the post.
Positions up for hire included engineers specialising in dexterous manipulation, whole-body control, and experts who would focus on robot learning and AI systems optimisation for humanoid robots.
The recruitment drive follows remarks made by company founder and CEO Jensen Huang at the annual developer event, GTC 2026. Held in March in San Jose, California, Huang declared that the era of “physical AI has arrived.”
Nvidia also announced in June that it had partnered with Chinese robotics champion Unitree Robotics and Singapore robotic hand maker Sharpa to release a new humanoid robot reference design, in a bid to accelerate innovation in the global humanoid industry.
Jim Fan, Nvidia’s director of robotics, said the team was looking for “not just excellent technical experts and researchers, but adventurers willing to pioneer uncharted territories,” according to the post on Monday.
The talent grab comes amid explosive growth in China’s humanoid robotics sector. Chinese vendors were expected to have accounted for 95 per cent of global humanoid shipments in 2025, according to an April report by research firm International Data Corporation (IDC).
Morgan Stanley recently raised its forecast for China’s humanoid robot shipments this year to 50,000 units, nearly doubling its previous projection of 28,000 units, according to a report released by the US investment bank last week.
The report attributed the lifted market outlook to surging production by domestic developers, noting that a number of tech firms had announced plans to start mass production by the end of 2026.
Unitree Robotics has already shipped robots in batches, stating that it shipped more than 5,500 humanoid robots last year.


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The US chip giant says it is recruiting for more than a dozen roles as it looks to move robots from research labs to real-world deployment


The US chip giant says it is recruiting for more than a dozen roles as it looks to move robots from research labs to real-world deployment.


Nvidia to boost its China robotics team amid emergence of physical AI

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The US chip giant says it is recruiting for more than a dozen roles as it looks to move robots from research labs to real-world deployment

The US chip giant says it is recruiting for more than a dozen roles as it looks to move robots from research labs to real-world deployment