Cyngn and NVIDIA Showcase AI-Powered Autonomous Forklifts and Robotics Tech at Automatica 2025

In today’s episode of “What If We Just Automated Everything and Called It Innovation,” Cyngn has announced it’s teaming up with NVIDIA to bring us... wait for it... simulated forklifts. Yes, the autonomous industrial vehicle company proudly unveiled at Automatica 2025 that it can now replicate the sensors, actuators, and even the physics of pallets—just in case you were worried your digital warehouse was lacking realistic pallet angst.

According to the press release, Cyngn is using NVIDIA Isaac Sim to create gloriously accurate virtual twins of its autonomous forklifts. Because what good is a robot forklift in the real world if it doesn’t have a deeply immersive virtual world in which to spiritually rehearse moving boxes?

“Safe, scalable autonomy across dynamic, real-world environments,” the release reads—presumably generated by an AI trained exclusively on corporate buzzword bingo cards.

Let’s pause to appreciate Cyngn’s DriveMod™, the company’s flagship self-driving industrial software, now available on vehicles like the Motrec MT-160 Tugger and BYD Forklift. DriveMod lets your warehouse floor transcend its blue-collar roots and join the gig economy of data collection and low-latency decision-making. One tugger can haul 12,000 pounds, travel inside and out, and—if the stars align—achieve a payback period in under two years. The American Dream lives on, in forklift form.

“We’re delivering real-world ROI,” said CEO Lior Tal, probably while staring meaningfully at a digital twin of himself shaking hands with a digital pallet.

Meanwhile, NVIDIA—who by now is basically the sugar daddy of every startup that can fog a GPU—gets to flex its Isaac platform’s muscles without having to actually lift anything. Because in the age of AI, why build when you can simulate, partner, and issue a press release?

So here we are: a world where your forklift’s simulated cousin has better job security than you. But don’t worry, Cyngn says it’s solving labor shortages—by deleting the labor.

Coming soon: DriveMod 2.0, now with emotional intelligence and passive-aggressive beeping when you stack pallets wrong.