When Jaiveer Singh talks about robots, he doesn’t begin with spectacle. He begins with infrastructure: the boards inside machines, the software that lets developers see through a robot’s cameras and the engineering required before a robot can leave a demo floor to do something useful.
As a robotics software engineer who leads the team behind NVIDIA Isaac ROS (Robot Operating System), Singh works on the connective tissue of the physical AI era. Built on the open source ROS 2 framework, Isaac ROS brings CUDA-accelerated libraries and AI models to developers building autonomous mobile robots, manipulation systems and humanoids.
“My goal is to make sure everyone feels like they are a part of the robotics future,” Singh said.
For Singh, that future began in middle school, building with LEGO Mindstorms, a popular line of programmable robotics kits. After excelling in robotics competitions throughout high school, he studied electrical engineering, computer science and business at the University of California, Berkeley, before joining NVIDIA full time after an internship with the robotics team.
In a satisfying turn, the work he now leads began as his intern project.
