NVIDIA unveils new robot chip for a Terminator-style future

NVIDIA is betting big that the T5000 will be the chip that ushers in the age of “physical AI”, where machines interact with the world the way humans do.

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26 Aug, 2025

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NVIDIA has just dropped a new chip in the market for robots, and they are calling it the T5000.

If Terminator 2, the movie in which actor Arnold Schwarzenegger popularised the machine from the future, had the T800 and the shape-shifting T1000, think of NVIDIA’s release as the next step — but for real robots, not Hollywood.

The T5000 is part of NVIDIA’s new Jetson Thor system, which has been built to give robots supercomputer-level brains. Meaning, these new chips would be able to run generative AI models to assist robots in interpreting and making sense of the world around them.

It runs on NVIDIA’s latest Blackwell GPUs and is said to be packing 7.5 times more AI power than the last model of such chips, the Jetson Orin.

That means robots powered by T5000 would not just move, they will be able to see, think, and act in real time.

‘Unmatched performance’