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Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards
Nebius Robotics & Physical AI Awards celebrate emerging startups and scale-ups that use AI to shape the future of the industry.
Our mission is to showcase transformative technology, foster collaboration between founders, industry leaders and researchers and power the next generation of breakthroughs in AI.
Companies from the United States, Europe, the United Kingdom and Asia are invited to apply, with the winners announced at the Nebius Robotics and Physical AI Summit & Awards Ceremony at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA on December 9, 2025.
Selected winners will also receive up to $100,000 in compute credits for Nebius AI Cloud, accelerated by NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
Award categories
A winner and a runner-up will be selected for each of the five following categories:
Foundation models, robot brains and runtime
Large-scale multimodal AI models, vision-language-action models and runtime infrastructure powering next-generation autonomous systems.
Data engines, synthetic data and simulation
Data platforms, synthetic data tools, simulation environments and digital twins enabling scalable training and validation.
Industrial robotics deployment and transformation
Large-scale deployments of robots across logistics, manufacturing, energy, healthcare and construction with measurable ROI and safety outcomes.
Vision AI and streaming video analytics
AI systems for video analytics in smart cities, industrial monitoring, safety and compliance.
Platforms for benchmarking, visualization and evaluation
Tools and frameworks that provide testing, compliance and shared standards for robotics and Physical AI.
Prizes
Grand prize winners will be awarded $100,000 in high-performance AI compute on the Nebius AI Cloud, accelerated by NVIDIA AI infrastructure.
Plus, winners will benefit from global recognition, powerful introductions to investors and leaders in the field and more!
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Program timeline
September 16, 2025
Applications open
October 20, 2025
Applications close
November 3, 2025
Finalists announced
December 9, 2025
Summit and award ceremony
Qualification criteria
Technical innovation & excellence
Novelty and technical strength of the solution. Does it push boundaries in AI, robotics, simulation or infrastructure?
Real-world implementation & reliability
Product maturity and performance in practice: pilots, deployments, safety and compliance.
Market potential & ecosystem adoption
Demand and adoption pathways: customers, partnerships, open-source traction and scalability.
Problem-solution fit & responsible vision
How well the product solves real customer or industry pain points, with attention to safety and responsible practices.
Judging committee
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Alexey Tsishevski
Head of GTM at Nebius
Sumay Parikh
Inception N.A Lead — Physical AI Startups at NVIDIA
Apply now
After submitting this initial form, you will receive an email with a link to the full application form.
FAQ
Applications open on September 16, 2025 and will close on October 20, 2025. Finalists will be announced 1-2 weeks after initial reviews are completed.