For any homeowner, having a helpful robot companion around the home is the stuff of sci-fi-worthy dreams.
But American tech firm Nvidia is now among the companies keen to make this a reality.
In California on Tuesday, the chip giant unveiled Blue, a cute advanced AI-powered robot with two legs, just 3 feet tall.
Footage shows Blue – which looks like the robot from the Pixar classic Wall-E – walk onto the stage as it’s introduced by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.
‘Tell me that wasn’t amazing,’ Huang says to the audience, as Blue waddles up to him with a similar gait to a duck. ‘Look how smart you are!’
Like R2-D2 talking to C-3PO in Star Wars, Blue responds with an adorable series of bleeps and bloops as it looks up at its master.
However, it seems there’s still lots of work to do on Blue, as the bot was being controlled remotely by a staff member backstage.
It looks like Nvidia is not to be outdone – as Boston Dynamics has hit back with a fresh clip of its own cartwheeling humanoid.
Nvidia’s Star Wars-inspired robot, called Blue, appears on stage during a keynote session at the SAP Center in San Jose, California, on March 18, 2025
The robot bares a striking resemblance to some of Disney’s other iconic designs such as Wall-E from the 2008 animation of the same name
Mr Huang introduced Blue at Nvidia’s GTC AI Conference on Tuesday in San Jose, California, described by some outlets as ‘the Super Bowl of AI’.
Blue, inspired by Star Wars, is part of a collaboration with Google and Disney, which owns the rights to the Lucasfilm movie franchise.
Disney will showcase the robot as several of its theme parks this summer, including Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland Paris.
Nvidia computers are operating inside Blue, which has been built with a powerful AI-driven physics engine called Newton to be able to perform ‘complex tasks’.
Since its founding in 1993, Nvidia has specialized in graphics processing units (GPUs) coveted by video game enthusiasts.
GPUs are also ideally suited for AI and the rise of that technology has catapulted the Silicon Valley-based chip maker into the spotlight.
‘We’re not making chips anymore; those were the good old days,’ Huang said. ‘What we do now is build AI infrastructure.’
In perhaps a well-timed X post, rival Boston Dynamics shared a new clip of its humanoid called Atlas performing some impressive acrobatics.
Like R2-D2 talking to C-3PO in Star Wars, Blue responded with an adorable series of bleeps and bloops as it looks up at its master, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang
In perhaps a well-timed X post , rival Boston Dynamics shared a new clip of its humanoid called Atlas performing some impressive acrobatics
Last year, Boston Dynamics unveiled a new version of its Atlas humanoid robot, showing its creepy movements that make it look like something out of a sci-fi horror movie
This latest version of Atlas, unveiled last year, is seen in the new clip doing cartwheels, forward rolls, hand stands and short runs.
It also crawls on all fours and does a sophisticated bit of breakdancing – but similar to Blue, not all is what it seems in the newest clip.
The Boston company confirmed Atlas is being controlled here with ‘motion capture’ – meaning it’s copying the movements of a human operator.
Atlas is not for sale, but rather it’s a ‘research platform designed to push the limits of whole-body mobility’, the company claims.
The bot’s capabilities have gradually been expanded since it was first unveiled, back in July 2013.
According to Boston Dynamics, Atlas is a ‘high mobility, humanoid robot designed to negotiate outdoor, rough terrain’.
It is aimed specifically at helping emergency services in search and rescue operations.
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