Physical AI · robot fleets in warehouses and data centers · NVIDIA Nemotron on Nebius Token Factory

One hazard. One Ultra call. The whole fleet knows.

When a robot meets something new, like a spill in aisle 4 or a coolant leak at the end of row C2, Nemotron Ultra works out what to do. NemoFleet stores that decision against the map cell. Every robot that reaches the cell afterwards reuses it through Nemotron Nano instead of paying for the same reasoning again. A person in the lane is never reused. That always goes back to Ultra.

Live · from the console's database

What the fleet has done so far

Real counts from real Token Factory calls, across both sites. Open the console and click Run scenario to add to them.

—Ultra calls avoided by fleet memory
—Ultra decisions made
—average Ultra decision time
—Ultra tokens not spent
The problem

Every robot meets the same hazard

In a warehouse or a data-center hall, one spill is met by robot after robot. Today a fleet has two bad options. It can send every sighting to a frontier reasoning model, which is slow and costs more as the fleet grows. Or it can let a small model guess, which is fast but wrong on things it has never seen. In practice, operators halt the whole zone and wait.

How it works

See, decide, remember

Each event goes through three steps. Ultra handles what is new, unsafe or uncertain. Fleet memory makes sure it only handles each hazard once.

1 · SEE

Perception

The robot's camera frame becomes structured JSON: hazards, whether a person is present, whether the path is clear, and a recommended action.

Model
Gemma 3 27B today · Cosmos3 Super Reasoner ready (one-command switch)
Runs on
Nebius Token Factory
2 · DECIDE

Nano, then Ultra if needed

Nano returns typed fleet actions with a confidence score. New hazards, people in a lane and low confidence go to Ultra.

Models
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B · Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B
Runs on
Token Factory Responses API, strict JSON schema
3 · REMEMBER

Fleet memory

Ultra's decision is stored against the map cell, with an expiry. The next robot at that cell gets it in Nano's prompt and no Ultra call is made. If the scene has changed, Nano lowers its confidence and Ultra decides again.

Stored in
D1 precedents · KV hazard tags · R2 raw calls
Never reused
safety events, people in a lane

Every model output is checked against a schema before it runs, and a deterministic A* + CBS planner owns every trajectory. Models choose actions, never paths.

Invariants

Safety is never delegated

People escalate

A person in a lane always goes to Ultra. Fleet memory and peers never settle it.

Schema first

Outputs are constrained by a strict JSON schema and validated again. An invalid answer is retried once, then the robot stops.

Reuse is checked

A precedent is context, not a command. If what the robot sees differs, the decision goes back to Ultra.

Planner owns motion

A* + CBS computes every trajectory, collision-free by construction.

Peer handoffRobots hand precedents to each other as they pass. Confidence decays with every hop, tags expire, and safety events always escalate.
When the network drops

Knowledge that still moves in a dead zone

Wi-Fi fades between tall metal racks and at the end of cold aisles. When two robots pass, each hands the other the precedents it holds, with a hop count and an expiry. A robot that has lost its link still knows about the spill.

  • Today: handshakes copy precedents in fleet memory with hop counts and expiring tags
  • Next: offline mode, where a robot knows only what its peers handed it, measured against the same run with no handshakes
Built on Nebius and NVIDIA

What runs where

Every model call in the console is real and logged, with latency and tokens per call.

RoleModelRuns onStatus
Deliberation on new or unsafe eventsNemotron 3 Ultra 550BToken Factory · Responses API · strict schemaLive
Reflex decisions, reuse of precedentsNemotron 3 Nano 30BToken Factory · Responses API · strict schemaLive
Camera perceptionGemma 3 27B · Cosmos3 Super ReasonerToken Factory · serverless / dedicated endpointGemma live · Cosmos wired, waiting on its endpoint
Night Shift replay: Ultra re-judges NanoNemotron 3 Ultra 550BToken FactoryLive
Night Shift dream, gate, LoRA consolidateUltra · Nano + LoRANebius Serverless Jobs · MLflowPlanned
Fleet memory and call lognoneCloudflare D1 · KV · R2Live
Night Shift

The fleet learns overnight

Fleet memory helps the next robot within minutes. Night Shift turns the day's decisions into a better reflex model for tomorrow.

01 REPLAY · LIVE

Re-judge the day

Token Factory

Ultra re-judges Nano's decisions and flags disagreements. The disagreement rate guides tomorrow's threshold τ.

02 DREAM · PLANNED

Simulate variants

Serverless Jobs fan-out

Ultra writes variants of the hardest episodes, and jobs run them through the planner.

03 GATE · PLANNED

Keep only safe lessons

Serverless Jobs

A lesson must fix its variants without making normal operations worse.

04 CONSOLIDATE · PLANNED

Train and promote

H200 job · MLflow

LoRA fine-tune of Nano, promoted only if it beats today's model.

Roadmap · pairing schedulerEach robot meets a peer slightly ahead of it, so every pass carries a small, usable difference.
Roadmap

Pairing: learn from the robot just ahead

A scheduler adds pass-by waypoints so a new robot meets peers in order of competence. Each exchange stays small enough to take in during one pass.

Named after countercurrent exchange in a duck's leg, where opposite flows keep a small gradient along the whole length.

Source

Run it yourself

Apache 2.0. The repository has setup steps, the architecture, the QA suite and our platform feedback.