The relationship between Nvidia and Toyota has evolved from an automotive AI computing deal into something bigger, touching autonomous vehicles, factory robotics, and simulation software that lets engineers train robots before a single physical machine is built.
A partnership that has been compounding since 2017
The foundation was laid in May 2017, when Toyota selected Nvidia’s Drive PX platform as the computing backbone for its autonomous driving systems. By CES 2025, Toyota announced that its next-generation vehicles would run on Nvidia’s DRIVE AGX Orin platform, paired with the safety-certified DriveOS operating system.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang offered a frame for all of this at CES 2025, describing self-driving vehicles as potentially the first multi-trillion dollar robotics industry.
From the highway to the factory floor
