NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) shares are trading higher on Wednesday.

In a blog post, the company said that a collaboration between NVIDIA and academic researchers is prepping robots for surgery.

ORBIT-Surgical, crafted by researchers from University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, ETH Zurich, Georgia Tech, and NVIDIA, is a simulation framework aimed at training robots. These robots have the potential to enhance surgical teams' capabilities while alleviating surgeons' cognitive burden.

The platform facilitates over a dozen maneuvers, drawing inspiration from laparoscopic training protocols for minimally invasive surgery, NVIDIA said.

These include tasks like grasping small objects such as needles, transferring them between arms, and placing them with exceptional accuracy.

The physics-based framework was constructed utilizing NVIDIA Isaac Sim, a robotics simulation platform tailored for designing, training, and testing AI-driven robots.

Researchers trained reinforcement learning and imitation learning algorithms on NVIDIA GPUs and leveraged NVIDIA Omniverse, a platform enabling the development and deployment of sophisticated 3D applications and pipelines utilizing Universal Scene Description (OpenUSD), for photorealistic rendering capabilities.

Utilizing the community-supported da Vinci Research Kit, offered by the Intuitive Foundation, a nonprofit backed by robotic surgery frontrunner Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (NASDAQ:ISRG), the ORBIT-Surgical research team showcased how training a digital twin in simulation seamlessly translates to a physical robot within a laboratory setting.

The company said, ORBIT-Surgical is set to debut at ICRA, the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, occurring this week in Yokohama, Japan.

Price Action: NVDA shares are trading higher by 3.53% to $945.84 at last check Wednesday.

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