Joby Aviation has entered into a collaboration with NVIDIA, becoming the sole aviation launch partner for the NVIDIA IGX Thor platform. Built on NVIDIA’s Blackwell architecture, the industrial-grade platform is designed to enable the next generation of physical AI applications. Together, the companies aim to advance Joby’s Superpilot autonomous flight technology across both civil and military use cases.

Gregor Veble Mikić, flight research lead at Joby, says: “The autonomous systems under development at Joby are poised to complement human intelligence by providing speed, precision and stamina beyond what a person alone is capable of. To achieve this, an aircraft needs a powerful onboard computer that can interpret extraordinary amounts of information to make decisions in real-time. Combining NVIDIA's compute power with our world-class aircraft design, certification and rigorous flight testing capabilities, we're enabling a new era of safety-first autonomy in aviation.”

NVIDIA’s IGX Thor platform supports recognised functional safety standards, allowing Joby to pursue certifiable autonomy as the FAA expands US airspace capabilities. Superpilot’s integration of high-performance computing will enhance operational safety through autonomous mission management, radar and sensor processing, predictive system health monitoring and digital twin modelling, enabling more reliable and efficient flight operations.