👾Nvidia Powers Disney’s Star Wars Droids

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Nvidia, Disney, and Google DeepMind team up to bring Star Wars droids to life

Key Points 

• Nvidia’s new physics engine, Newton, will help Disney’s Star Wars-inspired robots move more naturally in theme parks.

• Newton is designed to make robots more expressive and better at handling real-world materials like fabric, sand, and food.

• Nvidia also unveiled Groot N1, a new AI model, and announced its next-gen AI chips, Blackwell Ultra and Rubin.

🤩News - Nvidia is partnering with Disney Research and Google DeepMind to develop Newton, a new physics engine designed to help robots move more naturally in the real world. 

Announced at GTC 2025, Newton will power Disney’s next-generation entertainment robots, including the Star Wars-inspired BDX droids. One of these droids even made a surprise appearance on stage alongside Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang. 

🤖What Newton can do - Newton is designed to help robots interact with the world more naturally, making them more expressive and better at handling complex tasks. Nvidia says developers will be able to use it to simulate interactions with things like food, fabric, and sand—materials that have traditionally been tricky for robots to work with. Newton will also integrate with Google DeepMind’s MuJoCo physics simulator, expanding its potential applications.

Disney has been testing these robots for years, with recent demos at SXSW 2025. But now, with Newton’s capabilities, the company says it's ready to bring them to theme parks worldwide starting next year. Nvidia plans to release an open-source version of Newton later in 2025.

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🚀Other big AI announcements at GTC 2025 - 

• Newton wasn’t the only major reveal from Nvidia this week. The company also introduced Groot N1, an AI model designed to improve how humanoid robots perceive and reason about their environment. Trained on both real and synthetic data, Groot N1 features a “dual-system architecture” inspired by human thinking and is now available in open source. Read more here. 

• Nvidia also shared its roadmap for next-gen AI chips. Coming later this year is Blackwell Ultra, followed by the more powerful Rubin in 2026. Rubin, paired with Nvidia’s new Vera CPU, will more than double AI processing power compared to today’s Blackwell chips. A Rubin Ultra version is set for 2027, packing four GPUs into a single unit. Read more here. 

• Nvidia is also launching two new personal AI-powered supercomputers built on its Grace Blackwell platform. The DGX Spark, available now, delivers up to 1,000 trillion operations per second, while the DGX Station, coming later this year, offers even more power for enterprise AI workloads. Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo are among the partners bringing these machines to market. “AI agents will be everywhere,” Huang said during his keynote. “And we need a new line of computers. This is it.” Read more here. 

Stability AI’s new model turns 2D images into immersive 3D-like videos

Key Points 

• Stability AI’s Stable Virtual Camera generates immersive videos by creating new viewpoints from up to 32 images.

• The model supports dynamic camera movements like “Spiral” and “Dolly Zoom” but may struggle with complex textures and shapes.

📸News - Stability AI has introduced Stable Virtual Camera, an AI model designed to transform 2D images into videos with realistic depth and perspective. 

Virtual cameras are commonly used in filmmaking and animation to navigate digital scenes, but this model adds generative AI to the mix, giving users more control over how scenes are viewed and explored. For now, Stable Virtual Camera is available for research use under a noncommercial license and can be downloaded from Hugging Face. 

✨What it can do - The model can generate new viewpoints from up to 32 images, allowing users to create videos with smooth, dynamic camera movements. It supports presets like “Spiral,” “Dolly Zoom,” “Move,” and “Pan,” and can generate videos up to 1,000 frames long in square, portrait, or landscape formats.

However, Stability notes that results may vary, particularly with images of people, animals, or scenes with complex textures like water, which can cause flickering artifacts.

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