US autonomous forklift and tugger producer Cyngn, says it has strengthened its ability to develop its autonomous materials handling equipment with news its high-fidelity forklifts will be integrated into NVIDIA’s Isaac Sim open simulation.

NVIDIA describes Isaac Sim as “a scalable, photorealistic, and physically accurate robotics simulation application” which is built on its Omniverse platform.

Cyngn says it has spent the last year working with NVIDIA to enable its forklifts to run inside Isaac Sim.

“The teams established two-way communication between Cyngn's tyre and vehicle dynamics models and Isaac Sim's virtual surfaces, ensuring that forklift behaviour in simulation closely reflects real-world performance,” Cyngn states.

“By bringing its validated vehicle dynamics models into a realistic digital factory environment in Isaac Sim, Cyngn can test how its forklifts move, turn, and respond to different surfaces before they operate in customer facilities. 

“This allows the company to identify issues earlier, reduce risk, and accelerate deployment timelines.”

Cyngn CEO Lior Tal says combining its high-fidelity forklift models with NVIDIA Isaac Sim’s large-scale, GPU-accelerated simulation environment, helps it to develop and validate autonomy more efficiently. 

“By strengthening the connection between simulation and real-world deployment, we can move faster, reduce risk, and bring autonomous industrial vehicles to customers with greater confidence,” Tal continues.

Cyngn adds the integration of Isaac Sim reflects its alignment with NVIDIA’s long-term vision to make simulation fundamental to the development of physical autonomy across industries from robotics and logistics to autonomous vehicles.