Nebius, the AI cloud company, has unveiled the Physical AI Living Lab, a six-month programme designed to give British and European robotics start-ups access to NVIDIA’s physical AI development tools alongside Nebius’s own cloud infrastructure.
The programme aims to address a bottleneck for early-stage robotics firms in scaling simulations and taking their technology towards full-scale deployment.
Physical AI leans heavily on large-scale simulation, synthetic data, and compute power, the kind of stack most fledgling companies simply cannot facilitate on their own.
The Living Lab aims to strip away that barrier, giving founders the tooling to build physical AI at scale so they can move from simulation to real-world deployment faster.
Participating start-ups will work hands-on with a roster of NVIDIA technologies, including OSMO for workload orchestration, Cosmos world foundation models, and Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for robot simulation and training, all running on Nebius infrastructure.
Synthetic data generation comes via Voxel51’s FiftyOne integration. The first phase will run on Nebius’s UK-based infrastructure, built on NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs.
Anthony Hills, Director, UK&I at NVIDIA, pointed to the gap between Britain’s world-class robotics research and scaled, market-ready solutions, framing the Lab as a way to close it and give UK founders a clear path from prototype to deployed system.
Applications run through the NVIDIA Inception pipeline, with the first cohort beginning in September 2026.