Neural Concept, an end-to-end 3D AI platform for engineering intelligence, announced at CES that it is using the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for computer-aided engineering digital twins. This announcement follows news released earlier this year that Neural Concept has integrated its platform with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint.
Neural Concept’s platform has enabled the design of a radical new hydrofoil for the SP80 sailboat – anticipated to break all current world speed records later this year.
To date, over 70 plus OEMs and Tier 1s rely on Neural Concept’s 3D AI platform to optimise and accelerate their product development, simulation and design. The Neural Concept platform enables product engineering teams to significantly improve complex multi-physics product characteristics in real time using massively scalable simulations.
The benefits for the OEM and Tier 1 customers have been lower development costs, decreased energy requirements, optimised product innovation and significantly faster time to market. The integration of the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint into the Neural Concept platform further accelerates the benefits of deploying Neural Concept within the OEM engineering domain.
Neural Concept’s AI-driven intelligent engineering platform – as used by SP80 – allows for real-time CAE digital-twin simulations thanks to GPU acceleration with CUDA-X libraries, and the integration of NVIDIA Omniverse APIs, that achieves faster iteration cycles through enhanced decision-making efficiency, and improved performance—all within a unified, real-time virtual environment.
SP80 is a team of engineers and students on a mission to build a racing sailboat that is over 20% faster than the current sailboat world speed record of 65.45 knots (121 km per hour), set by Paul Larsen’s Vestas Sailrocket II in 2012.
Using the Neural Concept platform to perform 30,000 CFD simulations in under two hours and the platform’s integrated CAE tools, the SP80 team designed a radically new hydrofoil that leverages ‘ventilation.’ Instead of a conventional ‘tear drop’ hydrofoil design, the SP80 hydrofoil is wedge-shaped. This novel design creates an air bubble around the low-pressure side of the hydrofoil, delivering in a 50% increase in performance.
“CES is the world’s premier event to see the latest in product innovation. But in this age of accelerated AI, product development must keep pace if it is to solve intractable global challenges,” commented Pierre Baqué, CEO and Co-Founder of Neural Concept. “Neural Concept’s end-to-end 3D AI platform, now integrated with the NVIDIA Omniverse Blueprint for real-time computer-aided engineering digital twins, is reshaping product innovation, using the power of 3D generative AI and scalable compute to bring more sustainable, streamlined and safer products.
“SP80’s mission to challenge long-standing engineering limits and push innovation to its racing edge is truly inspiring – a symbol of what’s possible for forward-thinking OEMs who put engineering intelligence at their core.”
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