From World Models to Working Machines: Physical AI in the Real World

Construction and mining sites are among the hardest environments on earth for autonomy. Heavy machines, unpredictable terrain, and no tolerance for failure. Foundation models and world models are changing what's possible in robotics, and industrial equipment is where those advances meet their toughest test.

Caterpillar and NVIDIA join CoreWeave for a conversation on physical AI at industrial scale: what recent advances make feasible today that weren't a few years ago, what changes when AI leaves the lab and enters safety-critical environments, how simulation and synthetic data close the loop between virtual and physical, and what compute, infrastructure, and partnerships it will take to move from proof of concept to fleets in the field.