Nvidia Halos targets robot safety beyond robotaxis

Nvidia originally developed Halos for autonomous vehicles, but the company had to reimagine the platform to serve robotics. As Goel told Ars, functional safety for self-driving cars is fairly consistent across automotive companies and countries. Robots that operate in factories, warehouses, and hospitals face unstructured environments where obstacles can appear from any direction, as Gold noted. That variability pushed Nvidia to build in programmable hooks so developers can define custom safety functions without breaking the underlying infrastructure.