GTC SJ 2026: Healthcare Reimagined - Bridging Digital Intelligence and Physical Autonomy
NVIDIA declares healthcare AI at inflection point where AI can act physically in the real world
“physical AI where AI can see, perceive, but act in the physical world”
NVIDIA's healthcare team at GTC 2026 framed the industry as entering a 'physical AI' era, moving beyond ambient and agentic AI to robots that can act in clinical environments including surgical robotics, care cobots, and assistive humanoids. The session grounded this in hard scale: 160,000 hospitals, 72,000 procedure types, and 8 million medical devices that must be bridged from digital intelligence to physical action. NVIDIA positioned simulation platforms as a critical prerequisite for training these physical AI systems before real-world deployment.